State v. Snow

Citations

• 65 Wash. 353
• 118 P. 209
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 927

Syllabus

<p>Embezzlement — Larceny—Statutes—Construction. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2601, making it larceny for any person to withhold or appropriate property in his possession, “as a public officer, or as a person authorized by agreement or competent authority to hold the same,” a state officer who withholds or misappropriates money of the state in his possession as such officer is guilty of larceny although he had no authority or warrant in law to receive it; the clause as to “competent authority” not applying to “public officers,” and the law having regard to the officer’s relation to the money, and not to the legality of its acquirement.</p>