                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                       PART II--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                   CHAPTER 223--WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE
 
Sec. 3487. Refusal to pay as evidence of embezzlement

    The refusal of any person, whether in or out of office, charged with 
the safe-keeping, transfer, or disbursement of the public money to pay 
any draft, order, or warrant, drawn upon him by the General Accounting 
Office, for any public money in his hands belonging to the United 
States, no matter in what capacity the same may have been received, or 
may be held, or to transfer or disburse any such money, promptly, upon 
the legal requirement of any authorized officer, shall be deemed, upon 
the trial of any indictment against such person for embezzlement, prima 
facie evidence of such embezzlement.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 833.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 180 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 94, 35 Stat. 1106; June 10, 1921, ch. 18, Sec. 304, 42 Stat. 
24).
    ``General Accounting Office'' was substituted for ``proper 
accounting officer of the Treasury''.
