Court Opinion

ID: 9734452
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:35:18.770351+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:48.764398
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Justice,
concurring.
I join the opinion of Mr. Justice Flaherty. It should be noted that the transfer of funds from a Pennsylvania parent corporation’s bank account in Adams County to its subsidiary’s bank account in Virginia, an outwardly innocent act, has not been shown to be in furtherance of an unlawful agreement. Commonwealth v. Thomas, 410 Pa. 160, 189 A.2d 255, cert. denied, 875 U.S. 856, 84 S.Ct. 118, 11 L.Ed.2d 83 (1963) (prosecution for criminal conspiracy may be brought either in the county where an unlawful agreement is formed or in the county where an overt act is committed in furtherance of that unlawful agreement). Because the Commonwealth has not met its burden of proving jurisdiction, the Superior Court’s order reversing judgments of sentence should be affirmed.