State v. Rawles

Citations

• 103 Miss. 806
• 60 So. 782

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Banks and, tanking. Receiving deposits while insolvent. Code 1906, section 1169.</p> <p>Code 1906, section 1169, providing that if the president, manager, cashier, etc., of any bank or broker’s office, or establishment conducting the business of receiving on deposit the money, or ’ other valuable things, of such persons, shall receive any deposit, knowing or having good reason to believe the establishment to be insolvent, without informing the depositor of its condition, he shall be imprisoned, etc., was intended not only to protect depositors who are officers or agents of banks, but the general public making deposits in any bank, etc., the word “such” in the statute being merely a clerical error for which the word “other” should be read.</p>