Commonwealth v. Cotter

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 554
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 10

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Conspiracy—Corporations—Manipulation of stock.</p> <p>1. A conviction for the crime of conspiracy will be sustained, where the evidence tends to show that the defendants organized, first, a finance company, and after this an insurance company, without contribution of capital by themselves, and that they manipulated the subscriptions to the stock of the insurance company through the machinery of the finance company as so to realize to themselves a large amount of money, and to bring about an almost immediate collapse of both corporations.</p> <p>2, In such a case the court committed no error in refusing to admit in evidence a voluntary statement of persons selected by some of the subscribers to the stock of the insurance company, exhibiting the assets and liabilities as far as the project had been advanced.</p>