Commonwealth v. Shoener
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 211, Oct. T., 1905, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Schuylkill Co., Sept. Term, 1905, No. 905, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. John T. Shoener. Indictment for embezzlement. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict of guilty upon which judgment of sentence was passed. Errors assigned were (1) in overruling demurrer; (2-4) various instructions ; (5) in overruling defendant’s plea of autrefois acquit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The first specification alleges that the court below erred “ in overruling the third paragraph of defendant’s demurrer, which paragraph is as follows: That the offense charged in said indictment is barred by the statute of limitations, the same having been found more than two years after the moneys, alleged to have been received by the defendant the which he failed to pay over, came into his hands.” The indictment charged in apt language that the defendant had been duly elected and qualified as cleric of the court of quarter sessions of the peace for the county of…
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