State v. Newman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hendrickson, J.

The defendant below was convicted at the Passaic Sessions upon an indictment charging him with embezzlement as a public officer, to wit, a member of the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Passaic, and brings error. The particulars of the charge are that, having in his care and custody as such member eighteen oak plank of the value of $5, the property of said board, the defendant fraudulently took and embezzled the same to his own use, with intent to cheat and defraud the said board, &c.

One of the errors complained of was the…