State v. Raby

Citations

• 31 Wash. 111
• 71 P. 771
• 1903 Wash. LEXIS 591

Syllabus

<p>EMBEZZLEMENT-SUFFICIENCY OF INFORMATION-ALLEGATION OF AGENCY.</p> <p>Under Bal. Code, § 7119, which provides that, if any agent clerk, officer, servant, or person to whom any money or other property shall be intrusted, with or without hire, shall fraudulently convert the same to his own use, he shall be guilty of larceny, an information sufficiently charges the crime of larceny hy embezzlement, where it charges that defendant, as county auditor, received a county warrant, the property of • another which was intrusted to him by virtue of his office, and which he afterwards fraudulently and feloniously converted to his own use.</p> <p>SAME-SUBJECT OP LABCENY-UNDELIVERED COUNTY WARRANT.</p> <p>A warrant drawn by a county auditor and placed upon the files of the office, pursuant to the order of the commissioners upon an approved claim against the county, is a thing of value although never having been delivered to the proper owner.</p>