Commonwealth v. Pugliese

Citations

• 44 Pa. Super. 361
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 179

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Conspiracy—Obtaining money by false representations — Evidence.</p> <p>1. A person may be convicted of conspiracy to cheat and defraud where the evidence shows that he and another person received from a number of workmen different sums of money at different times, by means of threats and false representations that the payment of a certain amount of money was necessary in order to secure employment for such workmen at a certain mine, and that additional daily payments were to continue while the workmen were at labor in the mine. It is immaterial how the money thus fraudulently obtained was finally disbursed.</p> <p>2. In such a case evidence is admissible that the defendants cheated another person other than the two persons mentioned in the indictment where such cheating was a part of the same general system practiced by the defendants.</p>