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Huntzinger v. Commonwealth

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 4, 1881No. 108PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of B^erks county: Of January Term 1880, No. 108. This was an indictment against Jacob Huntzinger and J. Albert Huntzinger, in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill county,' for conspiracy to cheat and defraud, founded upon the oath of Thomas F. Kerns, prosecutor, who was a clerk of the said court. The venue was subsequently changed to Berks county. '• The indictment contained two counts.

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Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of B^erks county: Of January Term 1880, No. 108. This was an indictment against Jacob Huntzinger and J. Albert Huntzinger, in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill county,' for conspiracy to cheat and defraud, founded upon the oath of Thomas F. Kerns, prosecutor, who was a clerk of the said court. The venue was subsequently changed to Berks county. '• The indictment contained two counts. The first charged that the defendants being respectively president and cashier of the Miners’ Trust Company Bank of Pottsville, a corporation, “ did falsely and…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey

The indictment charges that Jacob Huntzinger, president, and J. Albert Huntzinger, cashier of the Miners’ Trust Company Bank, of Pottsville, a corporation, did conspire to cheat and defraud Thomas E. Kerns of twenty-four thousand dollars by means of falsely and fraudulently representing to said Kerns that said bank was solvent, and able to pay all its liabilities, and thereby inducing him to deposit in said bank the said sum of twenty-four thousand dollars, whereas the said Jacob and J. Albert, president and cashier as aforesaid, well knew said corporation was wholly insolvent, and unable to…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. WaltonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
  2. Supulver v. Gilchrist & Dawson, Inc.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1922
  3. Commonwealth of Pa. v. HinsdaleSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
  4. Commonwealth v. DicksonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  5. Commonwealth v. NelsonBeaver County Court of Quarter Sessions · 1946

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