Hellings v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the quarter sessions of Bucks County. It was an indictment against Bettings, a collector of taxes, for embezzling moneys received by him. The indictment contained four counts.
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Error to the quarter sessions of Bucks County. It was an indictment against Bettings, a collector of taxes, for embezzling moneys received by him. The indictment contained four counts. The first count charged, “That John A. Bettings late of the county aforesaid, yeoman, on the tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord .one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and long before and since was a collector of the county taxes for the township of Bensalem, in the county of Bucks; and during the time when he was such collector as aforesaid, did receive and have to and for the use of the…
1Per curiam
The offence here is laid as embezzlement at the common law. Sir "William Blackstone, speaking of misprisions in public trusts and employments, remarks in the fourth volume of his Commentaries p. 121: “Hitherto also may be referred the offence of embezzling the public money, called by the Romans peculatus, which the Julian law punished with death in a magistrate, and with deportation or banishment in a private person. With us it is not a capital crime, but subjects the committer of it to discretionary fine and imprisonment.” He refers to no-authority for the last position; but we find in…
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