Gray v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Criminal Court. Heard before Hon. S. L. Weaver. Prom a conviction of embezzlement, Andrew Gray appeals.
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Appeal from Jefferson Criminal Court. Heard before Hon. S. L. Weaver. Prom a conviction of embezzlement, Andrew Gray appeals. Indictment was in the following language, omitting the formal charging part: “Andrew Gray, being at the time the agent or clerk, to-wit, the timekeeper, of the American Bridge Company of New York, a body corporate, did embezzle or fraudulently convert to his own use, or to the use of another, or did fraudulently secrete, with the intent to convert to his own use, or to the use of another, money, bank notes, checks, or bills of exchange of or about the amount of…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The indictment was not subject to the demurrers interposed thereto, and which were properly overruled. — Bailey v. The State, 116 Ala. 439, 22 South. 918.
Many of the objections to the evidence grew out of the attempt of the state to establish the amount of funds received by the defendant as agent of the American Bridge Company, and which had not been accounted for by him. The defendant admitted getting .$1,500, less cost of exchange, as agent for the company, which he had not disbursed, and which he claimed to have lost through pickpockets or otherwise, and the jury found the amount embezzled…
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