Smith v. United States

HITZ, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of embezzlement in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

The defendant there was indicted, convicted, and sentenced for embezzling $500 from one Ruth Stead, about the 14th day of March, 1929.

Mrs. Stead, a woman of sixty-five years, served as a hostess at Georgetown University, and for some time prior to November, 1928, was the owner of six certificates, representing thirteen shares of stock, in Cities Service Corporation.

She testified that she then met the defendant, who interested her in a proposed club to be known as the…