State v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2017
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hava v. Cafiero · Succession of McRacken · State v. Lester
Most-quoted passages
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“The evidence produced by the State for the purpose of negativing prescription is uncontradicted. It discloses that appellee was employed by Mr. Peter Crifasi, proprietor of the ‘One Stop Market’ in Baton Rouge, as a delivery boy. On August 20th and 21st, 1951, he was instructed to make four deliveries of merchandise for which he was to receive cash approximating $63.89. His employer made out three invoices for each delivery to be made, the original white copy, which was to be given to the customer at the time of delivery, a yellow copy, which was to be returned by ap-pellee with the cash payment and a pink copy, which was retained by the store. Appellee allegedly was paid for each of the four deliveries of merchandise and appropriated the cash received to his own use. In order to conceal his peculation, he allegedly stole and destroyed the pink copies of the invoices which were kept in his employer’s place of business. The four customers to whom appellee made deliveries were | sEdward Orange Bowl, Humpty Dumpty, Toddle House and Italian Gardens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When the case was being prepared for trial under the original information charging theft of $63.89, it was discovered that one of the original white invoices—that delivered to Italian Gardens—had been lost or misplaced. Because of this, the district attorney elected to nolle prosequi the information and recharge appellee, alleging a theft of $47.94, which is the amount allegedly received by him on August 20th and 21st, 1951 from Edward Orange Bowl, Humpty Dumpty and Toddle House.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“language used in the applicable provision... is express and unequivocal .. (it) is to be given effect as written.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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