Dowdy v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of embezzlement, fined one cent, and sentenced to serve two days’ imprisonment in the county jail of Franklin county.

It appears that appellant was puf to trial on a charge, stated in the form of an affidavit made before the clerk of the court — this in pursuance of the terms of a local law permitting such procedure (Local Acts Ala. 1923, p. 272) — said affidavit charging that he, “being at the time an employee of the Carter Grocery Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Alabama, embezzled or fraudulently converted to his own use money to…