Davis v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Robert R. Davis, a porter at Joseph Horne Company, a department store, was questioned on June 7, 1979, by employees of the store’s security department concerning the theft of store merchandise. In the course of this encounter, he wrote and signed a statement admitting the theft of $2,000.00 worth of merchandise and executed a judgment note for the $2,-000.00 to provide reimbursement. Davis was suspended from his employment by the security personnel at the time he admitted the thefts and eventually discharged on June 29,1979.

On June 12, 1979, while still under…