Commonwealth v. Conroy and Kline

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

Appellants were tried and convicted on two indictments charging false pretense. The substance of the charge upon which the first indictment was based was that appellants falsely represented to Elizabeth Restenberger, the prosecuting witness, that they had searched the records for encumbrances against six adjoining and improved properties on Hanover Avenue in Allentown, and that these properties were free and clear of all encumbrances, whereas in fact they were encumbered, and known to appellants to be encumbered, with mortgages, aggregating $31,500; and that Mrs.…