Commonwealth v. MacDonald
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 261, Oct. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. County, August Sessions, 1918, Nos. 458 and 459, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. William MacDonald. Indictment for fraudulent conversion. Before Martin, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict of guilty on which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 261, Oct. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. County, August Sessions, 1918, Nos. 458 and 459, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. William MacDonald. Indictment for fraudulent conversion. Before Martin, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict of guilty on which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned, among others, were various rulings on evidence, the charge of the court, and the refusal to give binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The defendant was tried before the same jury upon two separate bills of indictment, which, however, charged offenses averred to have been committed in the same transaction; the misdemeanor involved being the *359fraudulent conversion of money the property of “Thomas Wolstenholme Sons & Company, Incorporated.” The indictment, No. 458, charged that the defendant, being an agent and acting for the said corporation, had been entrusted, for safe custody, with a certain sum of money and had with intent to defraud converted and appropriated the same to his own use. This indictment…
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