Stewart v. State

Citations

• 95 Miss. 627
• 49 So. 615

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law and Procedure. Penal statutes. Construction.</p> <p>Penal statutes must be strictly construed, and the courts can not extend them to cases without their terms.</p> <p>2. Same. Code 1906, § 1169. Bank employes. Receiving deposits. Insolvency. Knowledge.</p> <p>Under Code 1906, § 1169, making it a crime for an employe of a bank, knowing or having good reason to believe it to be insolvent, to receive a deposit without informing the depositor of its condition, a defendant' cannot be convicted unless he actually • knew, or had good reason to believe, the bank insolvent; and proof that the bank was insolvent and that defendant was negligent in being uninformed of its condition is insufficient to support a conviction.</p>