Commonwealth v. Wheeler
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 259 and 260, Oct. T., 1919, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. County, April Sessions, 1918, Nos. 552 and 558, on verdict of guilty in the case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. William T. Wheeler. Indictment for embezzlement as attorney at law and agent. Before Johnson, P. J., Seventeenth Judicial District, specially presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Yerdict of guilty upon which judgment of sentence was passed.
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Appeals, Nos. 259 and 260, Oct. T., 1919, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. County, April Sessions, 1918, Nos. 552 and 558, on verdict of guilty in the case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. William T. Wheeler. Indictment for embezzlement as attorney at law and agent. Before Johnson, P. J., Seventeenth Judicial District, specially presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Yerdict of guilty upon which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were various rulings on evidence, the action of the court in ordering both indictments to be tried…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The defendant was tried and convicted upon two indictments drawn under section 114 of the Act of March 31,1860, P. L. 410, charging that he had as an attorney, with intent to defraud, appropriated to his own use the property of his client. The first question involved in these appeals, which has been earnestly argued by counsel, is, did the court err in ordering the indictments to be tried together, before the same jury?
The offenses charged in the indictments, respectively, were misdemeanors, and grew out of the same course of employment. It is true that the property…
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