People v. Allen
People v. Allen
Opinion of the Court
Defendant was convicted of embezzlement, and has appealed from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.
2. It is next said that the witnesses Venable and Meredith “were permitted to give incompetent evidence as to the payment of the check by the Commercial Bank to the defendant, and the nondeposit of the amount in the Andrews Bank.” We are not told in defendant’s brief why the evidence was incompetent, counsel having aided us only by the statement,
3. Our attention is invited to folios 130 to 138. It is said that by examining the above portion of the record it will appear that the defendant was not allowed to show by proper cross-examination the animus of the witness Cuelho. We have examined the record, and find no error in the ruling of the court as to any question asked in cross-examination. The only question asking for a fact to which an objection was sustained was, “Q. Plow did you come to town?” It does not appear that it was very material for the jury to know how the witness came to town. Counsel for defendant, after asking a question or two, to which objections were sustained said: “We propose to prove—” The counsel for the people objected to any proposals to prove in cross-examination, and the court sustained the objection. It does not appear that any question was asked in cross-examination tending to show the animus of the witness.
This disposes of all the assignments of error in defendant’s brief, and we have not the time or the inclination to look through the record for others. The judgment and order should be affirmed.
We concur: Haynes, C.; Gray, C.
For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion the judgment and order are affirmed.
Reference
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- PEOPLE v. ALLEN
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- Syllabus
- Embezzlement—Information.—Variance.—When an Information for embezzlement aptly charges the defendant with having received the money of another, and willfully and feloniously appropriated it to his own use, additional averments describing the cheek or instrument upon which he obtained the money are immaterial, and a discrepancy between such description and the proof does no.t constitute a variance.