Supreme Court of South Carolina August 20, 1897 (Freeman v. Bailey)

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Gary.

The following is a copy of the decree from which the appeal is taken: “It appears that on the day of March, 1894, P. W. B. Freeman, late probate judge of the county of Greenville, absconded,'having embezzled many thousand dollars of the funds in his hands as probate judge and public guardian.