CHAVERS v. STATE


45 So.2d 180 (1950)

CHAVERS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Florida, Division A.

March 24, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Woodrow M. Melvin, Milton, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Attorney General, and Reeves Bowen, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


ROBERTS, Justice.

The defendant was tried and convicted in the court below on a charge of embezzlement. The jury found the defendant guilty of "petty embezzlement," he was adjudged guilty of "said offense" by the court, and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or, in default thereof, to imprisonment for sixty days in the County Jail.

The defendant contends, on this appeal, that the verdict is legally insufficient in that there is no such crime as petty embezzlement...

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