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126 Mass. 52

Commonwealth v. Gateley

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided November 22, 1878

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1878-11-22

Indictment, under the Gen. Sts. c. 161, § 38, charging Charles L. Swasey with embezzling “ three treasury notes, of the denomination and value of one hundred dollars each, three national bank bills, of the denomination and value of one hundred dollars each, three other notes of kinds to said jurors unknown, of the denomination and value of one hundred dollars each, divers other notes of kinds and denominations to said jurors unknown, of the value of one thousand dollars, all…

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Decided 1878-11-22

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Morton, J.

¶1The indictment charges that Swasey embezzled treasury notes and national bank bills. The defendant contends that the evidence showed an embezzlement of a bank check, and therefore that there was a variance. But we are of opinion that the court properly left this question to the jury.

¶2*54The evidence tended to show that Swasey had the right, in the course of his duty, to present the check at the bank, and draw the money upon it. There was no evidence that he made any use of the check except to draw the money upon it. The jury might well find, upon the evidence, that there was no misappropriation or conversion of the check, and that the embezzlement by Swasey of the property of his employers was not completed until after he had drawn the money from the bank.

¶3Exceptions overruled.

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