Commonwealth v. Barton
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 95, April T., 1902, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1901, No. 189, on verdict of guilty. Indictment for embezzlement. Before McClung, J. At the trial it appeared that the defendant was an attorney at law, and had appropriated to his own use moneys which had been placed by a client in his hands for investment.
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Appeal, No. 95, April T., 1902, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1901, No. 189, on verdict of guilty. Indictment for embezzlement. Before McClung, J. At the trial it appeared that the defendant was an attorney at law, and had appropriated to his own use moneys which had been placed by a client in his hands for investment. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on which the court sentenced the defendant to imprisonment in the Allegheny county workhouse for a period of six months. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were (1,2,4,5,6,7) answers to various points. (3)…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The defendant was indicted and convicted under section 114 of the Act of March 31, 1860, P. L. 410. The first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh specifications allege errors in answers to points submitted by the defendant, each of which points was based on what he claimed that the evidence showed or omitted to show. But as the evidence given on the trial has not been certified to us it is manifest that we cannot determine whether these answers were correct or incorrect; we therefore dismiss these assignments.
In the defendant’s fifth point the court was asked to charge that…
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