Commonwealth v. Dissinger

Citations

• 59 Pa. Super. 247
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 58

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Larceny as bailee — Promissory notes — Conversion—■ Jurisdiction.</p> <p>Where a person without any trick, artifice or false representation obtains possession of promissory notes to be used in renewing other notes, and after the holder of the original notes has refused to renew, such person transfers the new notes 'to a third person for a valuable consideration, he is guilty of larceny as bailee. If after the failure to renew, such person goes into another county and mails the notes in the latter county to parties out of the state for a consideration, the conversion takes place in the county in which the notes are mailed, and the courts of that county have jurisdiction of the offense.</p>