People v. Douglass

Defendant was convicted of the crime of embezzlement and sentenced. Upon appeal he alleges 20 errors, one of which and its counterparts, has merit.

The information charged that defendant, as agent and employee of the St. Joe Machines, Inc., fraudulently converted to his own use $4,000 in money belonging to that company. It appears that defendant had a patent license covering a pipe-cutting machine and entered into contract with the machines company to build the machine under his supervision and advance him money for expenses of traveling and selling the same. During the first year one machine…