Ex parte State
| Decision Date | 28 June 1917 |
| Docket Number | 3 Div. 314 |
| Citation | 200 Ala. 503,76 So. 445 |
| Parties | Ex parte STATE. v. COLLINS. STATE |
| Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
John L Collins was convicted of an embezzlement, and appealed to the Court of Appeals (76 So. 413), where the judgment was reversed, whereupon the State brings certiorari. Writ granted, and judgment of Court of Appeals reversed and remanded.
W.L Martin, Atty. Gen., and W.T. Seibels, Sol., R.G. Arrington and Rushton, Williams & Crenshaw, all of Montgomery, for the State.
Roquemore & Graham, of Montgomery, for appellee.
The defendant was indicted for embezzling the funds of a corporation, and it appears from section 6828, Code of 1907 that the part thereof that relates to incorporated companies or municipal corporations, as distinguished from a private person or persons, uses the words "officer, agent or clerk," and not "servant." The Legislature not only seems to make a distinction between "agent" and "servant" in wording the statute, but our court has held in Pullam's Case, 78 Ala. 31, 56 Am.Rep. 21, that the word "agent," as used in this statute, was not used in its broadest term so as to include all servants, but was used in its popular sense, "meaning one who undertakes to transact some business or to manage some affair for another by the authority and on account of the latter, and to render an account of it; a substitute." Therefore the use of the word "servant" in the alternative with "agent" in the indictment rendered the whole count bad upon demurrer, but, as one of the alternatives was good under the statute, the indictment was not void, and was sufficient to support a judgment of conviction, and the defect would not warrant an arrest of judgment or the reversal of the case by the appellate court in the absence of the point having been appropriately raised in the trial court. In the case of Hornsby v. State, 94 Ala. 55, 10 So. 522, the court, after holding that the indictment was bad on demurrer, held that the defect must have been taken advantage of by the defendant before trial and conviction, and, speaking through Coleman, J., said:
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