§ 750.176Embezzlement by administrator, executor or guardian; penalty

Sec. 176.
    Embezzlement by administrator, executor or guardian—Any general or special
 administrator or any executor or guardian, who has been appointed by a judge of probate and
 who has collected any goods, chattels, money or effects of the deceased or ward, and who has
 wilfully appropriated the same to his own use and who has been ordered by the judge of
 probate forthwith to deliver to his successor in trust, ward or any person lawfully entitled
 thereto, all the goods, chattels, money or effects of the deceased or ward in his hands, and who
 shall wilfully omit, neglect or refuse for 60 days to obey said orders, shall be deemed to have


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 committed the crime of embezzlement, and shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by
 imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years, or by fine not more than 5,000
 dollars: Provided, That in case such order shall be appealed from, said period of 60 days shall
 be reckoned from the affirmance of the order in the circuit or supreme court.