State v. Taylor

Citations

• 106 Miss. 850
• 64 So. 740

Syllabus

<p>1. Bakes and Banking. Offenses. Code 1906, section 1169. Indictment. Receiving deposits. Description of property. Act or omission of agent.</p> <p>An indictment drawn under Code 1906, section 1169, charging the president of a hank with receiving a deposit of seventy-five dollars, knowing, or having good reason to believe the bank to be insolvent, was a sufficient description of the property, for to say that a party received seventy-five dollars, without more, indicates ew vi termini that he received seventy-five dollars in money and such indictment was not bad for failing to state the kind and character of the money deposited.</p> <p>2. Indictment. Sufficiency. Act or omission of agent.</p> <p>An indictment charging that defendant was the president of a certain bank and that he received in said bank a deposit of seventy-five dollars knowing or having good reason to believe said bank insolvent, sufficiently charges that defendant, in receiving said deposit, was acting as the agent or representative of the bank.</p>