Commonwealth v. Lewis

Citations

• 6 Pa. Super. 610
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 211

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Fraudulent removal of goods — Pleading—Act of 1885.</p> <p>The substantive offense aimed at by the Act of June 23,1885. P. L. 136, is the fraudulent removal of a debtor’s goods by placing them beyond the reach of creditors. The reference in the act to methods of removal which might more particularly affect debts of a certain status was not designed to exclude the claims of other creditors from its provisions. The act was intended to embrace all fraudulent methods of removal of property beyond the reach of creditors. The inclusion of several methods or phases of removal in one count is not forbidden by the principles of criminal pleading, although the removal might have been accomplished by one or more of these, to the exclusion of others.</p>