Mortimore v. State

McCORD, Judge.

Under an indictment charging appellant with embezzlement he was convicted in the court below and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years. Hence, this appeal.

Appellant in the court below made a motion to quash the bill of indictment on the ground that it charged no offense; and, second, on the ground that the allegation in the bill of indictment to the effect that the money alleged to have been embezzled by him “had theretofore come into the possession of and was under the care of this defendant by virtue of said agency,” was too general and that…