State v. Collins

There must be a new trial in this case, upon the first ground urged by plaintiff in error. The prosecution was for embezzlement under § 6801, Comp. Laws, which reads as follows: “If any clerk or servant of any private person, co-partnership, or corporation, except apprentices and persons within the age of eighteen years, fraudulently applies to his own use or secretes with fraudulent intent to appropriate to his own use any property of any other person which has come into his control or care by virtue of his employment as such clerk or servant, he is guilty of embezzlement.” “Embezzlement” is…