Fields v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia sitting as a criminal court in a prosecution for embezzlement. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
An indictment presented April 3, 1905, charged Thomas M. Fields and another with embezzlement in eight counts. Some of these counts were held defective on demurrer, and a verdict of not guilty was directed on others, leaving the third count, on which Fields was found guilty, and from the judgment on which he has appealed.
The third count charges that, on November 23, 1903, in the District of Columbia, the said Fields and another.were receivers under an order of the supreme court of the District entered November 6, 1894, in the case of the Washington Beneficial Endowment Association against the…
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