People v. Román
People v. Román
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
In each of these cases, both in the municipal and district courts, Asunción Román was convicted of embezzlement and on appeal attacks the complaints.
They each set up substantially that Asunción Román, while he was acting as the sales and collecting agent of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, illegally, voluntarily, fraudulently and maliciously obtained (cobró) from a certain named lady, a patron of the said company, the sum of twenty dollars (ten dollars in No. 2872), delivering to said lady a receipt already used for another patron and which had been previously reported by the said defendant, thus appropriating to himself the amount of said receipt with the fraudulent intention of using it for his own benefit and so depriving the said company of the said money.
The appellant says the complaint is vague and ambiguous and to a large extent it is, but no- objection was made on this ground in the court below. We are bound to assume, in the absence of due objection, that the averments were sufficiently clear and definite to apprize the defendant of the elements of the offence against him.
On the other hand, the fiscal of this court suggests that all the elements of the offence of embezzlement are not stated in the complaint. The supposed lack consists in a failure to
The judgment must be affirmed.
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