TRIUMPH OF LAW OVER JUSTICE.
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that William Wyman, Bank officer accused Of
embezzling the funds, has been acquitted under


instructions from the Court, ona point of law rails
ed by one ofhs counsel, Mr. Choatc The ground
of his acquittal was, on the technical point that
the custody of the funds of the Bank was in the
Cashier, and not in the President, the latter not
being an officer of the Bank, within the meaning
of the statute. Thus has law trumphed over jus
ticc. A poor man steals pound Of bacon, to keep
soul and body together, and is whipped for it,
while the gentlem0mly Bank officer who steals
is suffered to escape for reasons based
on absurd technicalities! Wyman has been held
to bail IN S17 1000, on other indictments of a less
serious character. as,