Commonwealth v. Keuhne
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 133, Oct. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., Nov. T., 1908, No. 12, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Albert E. Keuhne. Indictment for embezzlement. At the trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty, upon which judgment of sentence was passed.
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Appeal, No. 133, Oct. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., Nov. T., 1908, No. 12, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Albert E. Keuhne. Indictment for embezzlement. At the trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty, upon which judgment of sentence was passed. On motion to arrest judgment Martin, P. J., filed the following opinion: The defendant was indicted on November 2, 1908, for fraudulent embezzlement of money belonging to the “German Daily Gazette Publishing Company,” a body corporate, by whom he was employed. It was proved that he appropriated the…
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Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The defendant was convicted upon an indictment containing three counts, charging distinct acts of embezzlement, all charging the offense in the same language, except as to *367the amount and date of the several items alleged to have been misappropriated. The offense in each count charged was, that the defendant, “being then and there a person in the employ of a certain corporation named and called the -German Daily Gazette Publishing Company, as clerk and servant, did by virtue of his said employment, and while so employed as aforesaid, then and there receive and take into…
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