Question juridique clé
Whether the indictment sufficiently described the entrusted assets and the alleged breach of trust under the accusation principle
Solution extraite
The indictment was sufficiently concrete under federal criminal procedure standards, but the lower court still had to examine whether the facts actually supported embezzlement or instead fraud.
Motifs extraits
The prosecution had to describe the factual basis of the accusation, not the exact civil-law relationship. Yet the written record and the lower-court proceedings showed that the accusation was not clearly compatible with a treuhand relationship.