v.
W. W. Ames
The indictment charges the defendant with having embezzled the sum of $132 from his principal, [*681] the Iowa Mutual Building & Loan Association, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Iowa. The charge is that defendant was the manager and agent of said association, that the money received and embezzled by him belonged to his employer, and that he willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously converted the same to his own use, without the consent of his said, principal.
There are at least two sections of the Code relating to embezzlement. One of them (section 4842) provides that: “If any officer or agent * * * of any corporation * * * embezzles or fraudulently converts to his own use * * * without the consent of the employer * * «- any money or property of another * * * which has come to his possession or under his care in any manner whatsoever, he is guilty of larceny, * * * and he shall be punished accordingly.” And the other (section 1918) reads as follows: “If any officer, director or agent of any building and loan or savings and loan association * * * shall embezzle or convert to his own use or shall use or pledge for his own benefit or purpose, any monies, securities, credits or other properties belonging to the association, * * * he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars or imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding ten years or punished by both fine and imprisonment.”
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III. Defendant was in charge of the Iowa Mutual Building & Loan Association, which association was in process of voluntary liquidation. J. B. Zigrang, who held a certificate of stock therein, on which he had paid $500,. called at the office, and demanded a settlement. Defendant gave him a check for $500, telling him at the time that his account also showed profits amounting to $132.99, but that he should keep this to meet possible losses. Zigraug, who is a Catholic priest, threatened' trouble if the money was not paid him. After Father Zigrang left the office, Ames concluded it was better to settle with Zigrang, and directed the bookkeeper, a Miss Murray, who had authority to issue checks, to draw a check for $132.99, saying that he would take the cash, and personally see the priest, and try and settle with him. Miss Murray drew a check, payable to the order of “Cash,” signed it in the name of the secretary of the company, and also' secured the signature of the president of the corporation thereto. This check was cashed by Miss Murray, and the money called for therein was delivered to defendant. At this time the Iowa Mutual Company was being absorbed by the Home Savings & Trust Company, another corporation, located in Des Moines, and the latter concern officed with the Iowa Mutual at Dubuque. One Spinney was the secretary and manager of the Home Savings Company, and had recently been elected president of the Iowa [*684] Mutual Company. He arrived at Dubuque on the evening of the day Ames received the money on the check hitherto mentioned. Ames explained the matter to Spinney, and Spinney directed him (Ames) not to pay the money to Zigrang. After this matter was thus disposed of, Spinney asked Ames for $150 expense money. Ames replied that he did not know how much there was in the cash drawer, and Spinney then told Ames to give him the money which he had taken for the purpose of settling with Zigrang. Ames then went to the cash drawer, which was used in common by the two companies hitherto mentioned, and made up a package of $150, and gave it to Spinney, at the same time placing a ticket for $17 in the drawer, which, with the cash check, was supposed to represent the $150. The $150 was placed in an envelope, and delivered to Spinney, who took it away with him. Spinney did not take the trip he told Ames he intended to make, but returned to Des Moines, and when he arrived there turned the money he had received from Ames over to the treasurer of the Home Savings & Trust Company, who entered it upon the expense account of that company. On counting the money, it was discovered there were but $140, and the treasurer wrote Ames, mentioning the fact that there was a shortage of $10. This is, in brief, the history of the case.
[*685] The state also offered in evidence the Iowa Mutual Company’s cash disbursement book, the entries on which had been made by Miss Murray, without defendant’s knowledge or consent. This book was objected to. It. showed a charge of the $132.99 to Father Zigrang’s account. Having been made by the bookkeeper without, defendant’s knowledge or consent, the defendant was not-bound thereby, and the book should not have been admitted in evidence. When defendant received the money, he told the bookkeeper he should settle with Zigrang on the best terms he could; would try to get him to take less than the profits shown on the books; and that-, if he could not do so, he should pay the full amount. Under this state of facts the book should not have been received in evidence*.
Some other rulings are complained of, but, as the matters are not likely to arise on a retrial, we do not consider them.
For the errors pointed out, the judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded.