State v. Pratt
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, St. Louis Criminal Court. — Hon. Gr. S. Van Waggonee, Judge. The following are tlie instructions discussed in the opinion of the court: (1) The court instructs the jury that if they believe and find from the evidence in the cause that at any time within three years prior to the finding of this indictment, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, was doing business in the city of St. Louis, in the state of Missouri and was a corporation duly established,…
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Appeal from, St. Louis Criminal Court. — Hon. Gr. S. Van Waggonee, Judge. The following are tlie instructions discussed in the opinion of the court: (1) The court instructs the jury that if they believe and find from the evidence in the cause that at any time within three years prior to the finding of this indictment, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, was doing business in the city of St. Louis, in the state of Missouri and was a corporation duly established, organized, existing and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Illinois, and that the defendant, within…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
— The defendant was indicted for embezzling certain money and bank notes of the value of $3,518, belonging to the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, the denomination or description of *489which money and bank notes was alleged to be by the grand jurors unknown. The indictment contained but one count. The result of the trial was the defendant was convicted and his punishment assessed at three years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Whereupon he appealed to this court.
I. Our statute provides: “If any agent, clerk, apprentice, servant or collector of any private person, or of any copartnership,…
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