CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 120 Trial for larceny--verdict of embezzlement etc
CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 120
Trial for larceny--verdict of embezzlement etc120 Trial for larceny--verdict of embezzlement etc
Where, on the trial of a person for larceny, it appears that the person took the property in such manner as to amount in law to the offence of embezzlement or fraudulent misappropriation, or the fraudulent application, or disposition, of property as a clerk, or servant, or person employed in the Public Service, or of obtaining property by any false pretence or by any wilfully false promise, or partly by a false pretence and partly by a wilfully false promise, the jury may acquit the person of the larceny charged, and find the person guilty of such other offence, and the person shall be liable to punishment accordingly.