§61-3-20. Embezzlement.
If any officer, agent, clerk or servant of this state, or of
any county, district, school district or municipal corporation, or
of any banking institution, or other corporation, or any officer of
public trust in this state, or any agent, clerk or servant of any
firm or person, or company or association of persons not
incorporated, embezzles or fraudulently converts to his own use,
bullion, money, bank notes, drafts, security for money, or any
effects or property of any other person, which shall have come into
his possession, or been placed under his care or management, by
virtue of his office, place or employment, he shall be guilty of
the larceny thereof. If such guilty person be an officer, agent,
clerk or servant of any banking institution, he shall be guilty of
a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the
penitentiary not less than ten years. And it shall not be
necessary to describe in the indictment, or to identify upon the
trial, the particular bullion, money, bank note, draft or security
for money which is so taken, converted to his own use or embezzled
by him.
And whenever any officer, agent, clerk or servant of this
state, or of any county, district, school district or municipal
corporation, shall appropriate or use for his own benefit, or for
the benefit of any other person, any bullion, money, bank notes,
drafts, security for money or funds belonging to this state or to
any such county, district, school district or municipal corporation, he shall be held to have embezzled the same and be
guilty of the larceny thereof. In the prosecution of any such
officer, agent, clerk or servant of this state or of any county,
district, school district or municipal corporation charged with
appropriation or use for his own benefit or the benefit of any
other person, any bullion, money, bank notes, drafts, security for
money or funds belonging to this state or to any county, district,
school district or municipal corporation, it shall not be necessary
to describe in the indictment, or to identify upon the trial, the
particular bullion, money, bank notes, drafts, security for money
or funds appropriated or used for his own benefit or for the
benefit of any other person.