Court Opinion

ID: 9824607
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 10:57:48.150075+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:39:52.795811
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
The court of its own motion ordered this case restored to the rehearing docket for the purpose of considering further the exceptions reserved by defendant in connection with the action of the trial judge, and of the prosecuting attorney, in reading to the jury sections 3961 and 3974 of the Code 1923. The contention is, that appellant was indicted under section 3960 of the Code 1923 and that the sections, supra, are without applicability.
There can be no question or doubt, that the indictment in this case was drawn in accord with section 4529 of the Code 1923, and that the offense as charged therein enabled the accused to understand and to know what offense he was charged with and was called upon to answer. The three Code sections, supra, 3960, 3961, and 3974, all deal with the same subject, that is to say, to the crime of embezzlement, and we are of the opinion that a conviction could be had upon the charge as contained in this indictment under either or all of the sections of the Code to which reference herein has been made. This being true, the exceptions noted and presented can avail the appellant nothing, as no injury could have inured as a result of the action of the court and the prosecuting attorney in having read sections 3961 and 3974 to the jury.
The application for rehearing is overruled.