California Supreme Court October 15, 1870, No. 2,588 (People v. Cox)

Wallace, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of the Court:

The indictment in this cause, found under Section 70 of the Criminal Code, avers that Cos is guilty of the crime of embezzlement, in that he, being at the time a clerk in the employment of a certain business firm, received in the course of his employment “certain money” belonging to his principals, “and did willfully, and unlawfully and feloniously