Commonwealth v. Reston

Opinion by

Cercone, J.,

The defendant, Frank Reston, was brought to trial in the Court of Common Pleas of Lawrence County under indictments charging him with fraudulent conversion and larceny by bailee respectively. The prosecu-trix, Mrs. Peggy Dodds, charged the defendant with having converted to his own use the sum of $31,200 received from her for safekeeping. The jury returned verdicts of guilty on both indictments and following the court’s refusal of defendant’s post-trial motions, sentence was imposed and this appeal followed.

At trial, Mrs. Dodds, age 26, testified that at the time she met…