Commonwealth v. Warner

Opinion by

Hoffman, J.,

Appellant, Jack Warner, was charged and convicted of receiving stolen goods, conspiracy and being an accessory before and after the fact. The charges arose in connection with the alleged embezzlement and fraudulent conversion of approximately $72,000 from the Chelsea Title and Abstract Company of Pennsylvania, Inc. [Chelsea Title], by John J. Byers, an officer of Chelsea Title. Of this amount $20,000 was used by Byers to replace funds which he had previously embezzled from his account as real estate transfer tax agent for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the balance was…