As Amended
SEC. 97-23-19. Embezzlement; by agents, bailees, trustees, servants and persons generally.
If any director, agent, clerk, servant, or officer of any incorporated company, or if any trustee or factor, carrier or bailee, or any clerk, agent or servant of any private person, shall embezzle or fraudulently secrete, conceal, or convert to his own use, or make way with, or secrete with intent to embezzle or convert to his own use, any goods, rights in action, money, or other valuable security, effects, or property of any kind or description which shall have come or been intrusted to his care or possession by virtue of his office, place, or employment, either in mass or otherwise, he shall be guilty of embezzlement, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than ten years, or fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or either.
SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(59); 1857, ch. 64, art. 82; 1871, Sec. 2547; 1880, Sec. 2782; 1892, Sec. 1058; 1906, Sec. 1136; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 864; 1930, Sec. 889; 1942, Sec. 2115.