Commonwealth v. Wooden

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

The Commonwealth brings these sixteen appeals from an order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland County, quashing sixteen separate indictments drawn under the Act of May 18, 1917, P. L. 241, entitled “An Act making the fraudulent conversion of property or the proceeds of property a misdemeanor,” etc., charging the defendant with fraudulent conversion of the proceeds of sixteen auto mobiles. The material part of the charge in .each bill is as follows: “That W. H. Wooden did, unlawfully having received and having in his possession as president of the Scottdale…