Page:1862-63 Territory of Dakota Session Laws.pdf/95

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CRIMINAL CODE.

other security for money, of any person, by & clerk, agent, or servant of such person, it shall be sufficient to allege generally in the indictment, an embezzlement of money to a certain amount without specifying any particulars of such embezzlement, and on the trial evidence may be given of any such embezzlement committed within six months next after the time stated in the indictment, and it shall be sufficient to maintain the charge in the indictment, and shall not be deemed a variance if it shall be proved that any money, bank note, check, draft, bill of exchange, or other security for money of such person, of whatever amount, was fraudulently embezzled by such clerk, agent, or servant, within the said period of six months.

Sec. 11. In the prosecution of any such offense committed upon or in relation to, or in any way affecting any real estate, or any offense committed in stealing, embezzling, destroying, injuring, or fraudulently receiving or concealing any money, goods, or other personal estate, it shall be sufficient, and shall not be deemed a variance, if it be proved on trial that at the time when such offense was committed, either the actual or constructive possession, or the general or special property, in the whole or any part of such real or personal estate, was in the person or community alleged in the indictment or other accusation, to be the owner thereof.

Sec. 12. All fines and forfeitures imposed as a punishment for any offense, or for the violation or neglect of any duty imposed by statute, may be prosecuted for and recovered by indictment in the district court; or when the amount or value thereof does not exceed one hundred dollars, the same may be prosecuted for by complaint before a justice of the peace, who shall have jurisdiction thereof concurrently with the district court, except in cases of felony; and in all cases of the imposition of a fine pursuant to statute, as punishment for any offense, the offender may be committed till the same is paid, or he is otherwise discharged according to law.

Sec. 13. When any fine shall be imposed upon any person upon conviction upon an indictment or presentment of a grand jury, or when such fine has been imposed by a justice of the peace, in cases where justices of the peace have jurisdiction, such fine when the same shall be collected, shall in all cases be paid in.