People v. Cohen
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Court of Sessions of San Francisco County. The defendant, A. A. Cohen, demurred to the following indictment against him, which being overruled, the defendant appealed from the order overruling the demurrer.
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Appeal from the Court of Sessions of San Francisco County. The defendant, A. A. Cohen, demurred to the following indictment against him, which being overruled, the defendant appealed from the order overruling the demurrer. “ The grand jurors within and for the body of the county of San Francisco, and State of California, now here in the Court of Sessions within and for the the said county, duly empanneled and sworn at the February Term of said Court, began and holden at the city of San Francisco, county and State aforesaid, on the first Monday of February, A. n. one thousand eight hundred and…
1Opinion of the CourtMurray, C. J.
Indictment for grand larceny, as bailee, demurrer to the indictment overruled, from which defendant appeals.
The indictment charges that “A. A. Cohen, being bailee of four hundred thousand dollars, the moneys, goods, and chattels, of Adams & Co., did feloniously and willfully convert the same to his own use, with the intent to steal the same.”
The offence is created by special statute, and it is insisted that it is not properly charged in the indictment. Bailment is defined by Judge Story “to be the delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, express or…
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