Commonwealth v. Wilson

Citations

• 62 Pa. Super. 618
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 489

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Larceny as bailee — Principal and agent — Bale of real estate.</p> <p>Where an agent for the sale of real estate receives money on account of the purchase-price of property for his principal, and because of the inability or refusal of the agent to place a mortgage which he had agreed to take for the balance of the purchase-money, the sale is not consummated, and there is nothing to show that the agent did not pay over the -money received by him to the owner of the property, the agent cannot be convicted, in a prosecution instituted by the purchaser, of the crime of larceny as bailee under Section 108 of the Act of March 31, 1860, P. L.</p>