¶1The United Typewriter & Supplies Company was a concern located in Des Moines, and engaged in tbe sale of typewriting machines. Defendant was in its *370employ, under an oral contract, on a salary, his duty being to sell machines, which were shipped to him, as he directed, from Des Moines. He was to collect for machines so sold, and report such sales to, and make settlements with, the Des Moines office, in Polk county. This is the undisputed testimony. It further appears that defendant sold certain machines in counties other than Polk, collected the price, and, without reporting the same, converted the money to his own use. The case of State v. Hengen, 106 Iowa, 711 is on all fours with the one at bar, and this court there held that jurisdiction to try the defendant was in the county in which he had agreed to account to his employer. The question is quite fully discussed in that case, and many authorities are reviewed. We do not feel justified' in again examining the matter. That case is decisive of the one at bar. The trial court had juristietion, and the issue of fact should have been left to the jury. — Reversed.
113 Iowa 369
State v. Maxwell
Decided April 10, 1901
Supreme Court of Iowa · decided 1901-04-10
— How. S. F. Prouty, Judge. Dependant was indicted by tbe grand jury of Polk ■county for embezzlement, and in due course of time put upon trial. After tbe state had rested its case, and some, if not all, tbe evidence for tbe defense bad been introduced, tbe trial judge, on bis own motion, instructed tbe jury to return a verdict of not guilty, giving as a reason that, tbe offense being shown not to have been committed in Polk county, tbe court bad no jurisdiction.
Reversed · Decided 1901-04-10