State v. Walker
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Washington county. IIon. A. McC. Kimbrough, Judge. Walker, the appellee, was indicted for receiving money on deposit in his bank, the Merchants & Planters Bank of Green-ville, lie being tbe president thereof, knowing the bank to be insolvent, without disclosing its financial condition to the depositor, in violation of Code 1892, § 1089. Appellant’s demurrer to the indictment was sustained by the court below.
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From the circuit court of Washington county. IIon. A. McC. Kimbrough, Judge. Walker, the appellee, was indicted for receiving money on deposit in his bank, the Merchants & Planters Bank of Green-ville, lie being tbe president thereof, knowing the bank to be insolvent, without disclosing its financial condition to the depositor, in violation of Code 1892, § 1089. Appellant’s demurrer to the indictment was sustained by the court below. From a judgment discharging the defendant, the indictment being held insufficient, the state appealed to the supreme court! The facts are stated in the opinion…
1Opinion of the CourtMates, J.
Walker was indicted under sec. 1089 of the code of 1892, which is as follows, viz.:
“If the president, manager, cashier, teller, assistant, clerk, or other employe or agent of any bank or broker’s office or establishment, conducting the business of receiving on deposit the money or other valuable things of other persons, shall remove or secrete or conceal the assets or effects of such establishment for the. purpose of defrauding any of the creditors of the establishment, or shall receive any deposit knowing, or having good reason to believe the establishment insolvent, without informing the…
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