Kribs v. People of State
| Decision Date | 31 January 1876 |
| Citation | 1876 WL 10222,82 Ill. 425 |
| Parties | JOHN C. KRIBSv.THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. |
| Court | Illinois Supreme Court |
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WRIT OF ERROR to the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. H. H. CODY, Judge, presiding.
Mr. J. F. FARNSWORTH, and Mr. B. F. PARKS, for the plaintiff in error.
Mr. JAMES K. EDSALL, Attorney General, for the People.
This was an indictment in the circuit court of Kane county, against John C. Kribs, for embezzlement. On a trial of the cause the defendant was found guilty, and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year.
It appears, from the evidence introduced on the trial of the cause, that George W. Shaver, on the 26th day of June, 1874, placed in the hands of the defendant $550, to be loaned at the rate of ten per cent for one year. A receipt was given for the money, which was as follows: “ELGIN, ILL., June 26, 1874.
Received of George W. Shaver five hundred and fifty dollars, to be loaned at ten per cent, for one year, from this date.
JOHN C. KRIBS.”
One hundred and fifty dollars was paid back to Shaver on the 9th day of November, 1874, and at the same time interest was paid on the entire amount to the 1st day of December, 1874. The balance of the money the defendant converted to his own use.
If the money was placed in the hands of the defendant to be loaned for one year, upon real estate security, at ten per cent per annum, and he fraudulently converted the same to his own use, the defendant would, no doubt, be guilty of the offense charged. If, on the other hand, Shaver placed the money in the hands of the defendant, and looked to him for a repayment, and relied upon the guaranty of the defendant for ten per cent interest, from the time the money was paid over, then no conviction could be had. While we do not propose to express any opinion upon the evidence, yet, from the fact that the defendant guaranteed ten per cent interest from the date the money was received, and the subsequent payment of interest on the money to December 1, 1874, in connection with the agreement to repay the $400 on thirty days' notice, may properly raise a well founded doubt in regard to the guilt of defendant.
The proposition is too plain to admit of argument, that if Shaver, when he gave the money to the defendant, relied upon his honesty or responsibility to return it, with ten per cent interest, he can not resort to the criminal laws of the State to assist him to collect the debt.
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