Belt v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for larceny after trust. Before Judge Oallaway. Burke superior court. April term, 1897. The indictment charged, that C. T. Belt, being intrusted by Bettie A. Peel with the possession of three City of Augusta bonds of the value of $300, for the purpose of keeping them and preventing them from being stolen or burned, by putting them in his safe, and for the purpose of turning them over to her when she should ask for them, did convert them to his own use and fail and…
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Indictment for larceny after trust. Before Judge Oallaway. Burke superior court. April term, 1897. The indictment charged, that C. T. Belt, being intrusted by Bettie A. Peel with the possession of three City of Augusta bonds of the value of $300, for the purpose of keeping them and preventing them from being stolen or burned, by putting them in his safe, and for the purpose of turning them over to her when she should ask for them, did convert them to his own use and fail and refuse to deliver them on demand or to pay her the market price thereof on demand. The prosecutrix testified in support…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
The accused, C. T. Belt, was convicted of the offense of larceny after a trust; and his motion for a new trial being overruled, he excepted.
1. It was not error for the trial judge to charge section 191 of the Penal Code as the law applicable to the case, as it was decided in Cody v. State, 100 Ga. 105, that the words “any other bailee,” as used in such section, properly construed, mean any bailee, whether he be of the classes "enumerated or not, with whom any money or any other thing of value may be intrusted or deposited, and that what-was said to the contrary by Lumpkin, J., in Sanders v.…
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