Commonwealth v. Berman

Opinion bt

Rhodes, J.,

The appellant, Morris Berman, has appealed from a conviction and sentence on a charge of conspiracy to cheat and defraud. The indictment sets forth that “on the twenty-eighth day of January, A. D. 1932, a certain corporation named Cummings Brothers Funding Company, of which one William H. Cummings was President, was the owner of certain real estate and land divided into lots, situate at Ventnor, and at Margate in the County of Atlantic, and elsewhere in the State of New Jersey.

“That the said Cummings Brothers Funding Company, under an agreement in writing bearing date the…