Harper v. United States

Section 5209 of the Revised Statutes under which the plaintiff in error was convicted provides that:

“Every president, director, cashier, teller, clerk or agent of any association. * * * who embezzles, abstracts or wilfully misapplies any of the moneys, funds or credits of tlie association; * * « or who makes any false-entry in any book, report or statement of the association, with intent, in either case, * * * to deceive any officer of the association, * * * shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and. shall be imprisoned not loss than live years nor more than ten.”

Section 52Í1 provides that…