COUTURE v. STATE

No. 416, September Term, 1968.

7 Md. App. 269 (1969)

255 A.2d 84

JOSEPH ANTWINE COUTURE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 19, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Philip Brown for appellant.

Henry J. Frankel, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Samuel A. Green, Jr., State's Attorney for Baltimore County, and John J. Lewis, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and MORTON, ORTH, and THOMPSON, JJ.


ORTH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant was found guilty at a court trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County of embezzlement and sentenced to be confined to the jurisdiction of the Department of Correction for the term of 5 years. He contends that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain the conviction. The contention involves the fine legal distinction between embezzlement and larceny and other larcenous

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