Commonwealth v. Shields
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 100, April T., 1912, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. and Quarter Sessions, Westmoreland Co., May T., 1911, No. 179, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. John E. Shields. Indictment for misdemeanor in office, embezzlement and perjury.
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Appeal, No. 100, April T., 1912, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. and Quarter Sessions, Westmoreland Co., May T., 1911, No. 179, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. John E. Shields. Indictment for misdemeanor in office, embezzlement and perjury. Before McConnell, J. The material charge was that the defendant had collected fees for serving writs which had issued from the common pleas of Fayette county against residents of Westmoreland county, and had failed to enter such fees in his books, or pay them over to the treasurer of Westmoreland county. At the trial the defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
It appears that the defendant, who was sheriff of Westmoreland county, was deputized at divers times by the sheriff of Fayette county to serve certain writs, eight in number, issued out of the court of common pleas of the latter county against residents of the former county; that these writs were returned by the defendant, with certain sums indorsed thereon as “my costs”; that the sums thus charged for his services were paid by checks drawn to his order as sheriff; that these checks were indorsed by his deputy by means of a rubber stamp, “Pay to the order of Safe Deposit…
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