Commonwealth v. Schmunk

Citations

• 207 Pa. 544
• 56 A. 1088
• 1904 Pa. LEXIS 515

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law—False pretense—Act of March 31,1860, see. Ill, P. L. 382.</p> <p>Where a person in Pennsylvania in order to establish a financial credit and commercial rating makes statements in writing which he transmits by regular mail service to a company in New York and the company relying upon his statement accepts his order for goods, and delivers them to a common carrier for shipment to the person ordering the goods, who receives them at their destination in Pennsylvania, the person sending the order may be convicted in Pennsylvania of obtaining goods under false pretense.</p>