Commonwealth v. Shanklin

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

The indictment on which appellant was tried and convicted contained four counts. The first three charged a violation of section 169 of the Criminal Code of March 31,1860, P. L. 382, forbidding the fraudulent making, signing, altering, uttering or publishing of a written instrument, (other than bank notes, bills, cheeks or drafts), to the prejudice of another’s right, with intent to defraud any person or body corporate; the fourth, the fraudulent conversion of the property of another, contrary to the provisions of the Act of May 18, 1917, P. L. 241; the second section of…