110 Miss. 430
Decided October 15, 1915
Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1915-10-15
Hon. Paul B. Johnson, Judge. W. D. Bell was convicted of embezzlement, and appeals. Appellant was indicted and convicted of embezzlement, the indictment charging that he collected from one Jenkins a premium on an insurance policy and converted the :same to his own use. Jenkins never received his policy of insurance, and had appellant indicted. It is not shown, by the evidence that appellant retained the money or used it in any way for his own benefit.
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Decided 1915-10-15
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¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2This case must be reversed, for the reason that the evidence for the state does not make out the charge laid in the indictment. There is no evidence showing or tending to show that the money was, by the defendant, converted to his own use.
¶3Reversed and remanded.