947 So. 2d 964 - Coleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “If any director, agent, clerk, servant, or officer of any incorporated company, or if any trustee or factor, carrier or bailee, or any clerk, agent or servant of any private person, shall embezzle or fraudulently secrete, conceal, or convert to his own use, or make way with, or secrete with intent to embezzle or convert to his own use, any goods, rights in action, money, or other valuable security, effects, or property of any kind or description which shall have come or been intrusted to his care or possession by virtue of his office, place, or employment, either in mass or otherwise, with a value of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or more, he shall be guilty of felony embezzlement, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary not more than ten (10) years, or fined not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or both.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 947 So. 2d 878 - Coleman v. State

2. “We do not so construe the statute. It is our opinion that the language employed by the legislature refers to trustees, factors, carriers, or bailees of both artificial and natural persons.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 947 So. 2d 878 - Coleman v. State

3. “any number of officers, trustees, or managers, by whatever name known,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 947 So. 2d 878 - Coleman v. State