US vs. Catolico
US vs. Catolico
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MORELAND, J.:
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funds. The accused did not convert the money to his own
use or to the use of any other person; neither did he
feloniously permit anybody else to convert it. Everything he
did was done in good faith under the belief that he was
acting judicially and correctly. The fact that he ordered the
sums, deposited in his hands by the defendants—
appellants in the sixteen actions referred to, attached for
the benefit of the plaintiff in those actions, after the
appeals had been dismissed and the judgments in his court
had become final, and that he delivered the said sums to
the plaintiff in satisfaction of the judgment which he held
in those cases, can not be considered an appropriation or a
taking of said sums within the meaning of Act No. 1740. He
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510
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