Commonwealth v. Morrisey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1878, No. 225. Indictment of Dennis Morrisey, for embezzling school funds, as treasurer and director of the school district of Lackawanna. The facts are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
At the Luzerne sessions, in September 1877, Dennis Morrisey, the defendant below, was indicted for the embezzlement of $850 of the moneys of the school district of the township of Lackawanna, of which he was treasurer. The indictment was framed under the 65th section of the Crimes Act of the 31st of March 1860, which declared that if any state, county, township or municipal officer of the Commonwealth, charged with the collection, safe-keeping, transfers or disbursement of public moneys, should convert to his own use, or use by way of investment any such moneys, or prove a defaulter, or fail…
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