Commonwealth v. Kleckner

Citations

• 45 Pa. Super. 179
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 18

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law—Indictment—Embezzlement—Act of March SI, 1860, sec. 114, P• A. 882, 410.</p> <p>1. An indictment for embezzlement which charges the offense in the very words of sec. 114 of the Act of March 31, 1860, P. L. 382, 410, is good and sufficient.</p> <p>2. On the trial of an indictment for embezzlement against a real estate broker who was charged with retaining moneys of his principal realized from the sale of real estate, evidence as to later sales on which commissions were claimed by the defendant, is inadmissible where the issue is clearly defined as to the appropriation of the specific sum stated in the indictment, and the sales upon which the commissions were claimed were not made until after the appropriation aforesaid.</p>