Commonwealth v. Carson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 146, April T., 1902, by plaintiff, from order of Q. S. Clarion Co., Feb. T., 1902, No. 16, quashing indictment in case of Commonwealth An S. E. Carson. Indictment for embezzlement. The opinion states the case. Error assigned was order quashing indictment.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
W. D. Porter, J.,
The commonwealth appeals from the order of the court below quashing the indictment. The indictment charged that the defendant, “being then and there treasurer of the township of Farmington, in the county of Clarion, having been duly commissioned and acting as such, and being charged as such treasurer with the safekeeping and transfer of the road taxes of said township of Farmington, did fraudulently take, convert, *50appropriate and apply to his own use the sum of $356.29 of the moneys and property of the said township, so in his charge as treasurer, for safekeeping…
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