McElree v. Darlington

Citations

• 187 Pa. 593
• 41 A. 456
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 845

Syllabus

<p>Corporations— Officers of corporations — Boohs—Evidence—Criminal law. An officer or employee of a corporation who is under indictment for embezzlement of its funds may not require of his employer a suppression or conceal menr of his own entries in its books, although the entries may furnish the material clue to his crime and possibly afford satisfactory evidence of it.</p> <p>Where the president of the corporation which is in the hands of a receiver has been indicted for embezzlement, the court of common pleas which has appointed the receiver will entertain a petition of the district attorney and the prosecutrix in the criminal proceeding, for leave to examine the books, papers and accounts of the company in the hands of the receiver, although such examination may furnish evidence against the person indicted.</p>