State v. Davis-Bell

How courts have described this case

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• holding Commonwealth presented sufficient evidence to sustain appellant's conviction for Theft by Deception where appellant prevented lenders from acquiring information which would have affected their judgment about loan transactions
• holding mens rea for theft by deception was sufficiently proven where falsified records evidenced the defendant’s “purposeful intent to give his lenders less than what they bargained for in order to procure their property”
• defendant’s purposeful intent to give lenders less than what they bargained for in order to procure their property evidenced guilty-mind requirement of theft by deception statute, regardless of defendant’s intent to repay
• adopting analyses of courts of sister states

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).