Commonwealth v. Binns

SMITH, J.,

Each of these defendants stands accused of a number of instances of wrongdoing, allegedly committed in the course of performance of his duties while employed as a clerk by the Prothonotary of Philadelphia County. The Commonwealth asserts that each, while charged with the duty of receiving and officially stamping papers being filed for institution of legal actions, accepted sums of money from the persons filing them in return for predating them to dates earlier than those of actual filing, and then secreted, destroyed, altered or *108otherwise falsified records of the office to conceal…