Commonwealth of Pa. v. Rosser

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The commissioners of Luzerne County were charged in an indictment containing thirty-six counts with wilful misbehaviour in office. The jury convicted them on the second, third and fourth counts and acquitted them on all the other counts. The alleged criminal conduct consisted in violating the Controller Act of June 27, 1895, P. L. 403, as amended by the Act of 1927, P. L. 176, which provides that all contracts made by commissioners involving an expenditure exceeding three hundred dollars shall be in writing and that no such contract shall be entered into unless made…