Court Opinion

ID: 9637502
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:08:02.649285+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:56.692173
License: Public Domain

McEWEN, Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the result of the very thoughtful opinion of our eminent colleague Judge Donald E. Wieand since I share the view that a court may not, after a verdict of guilty of the type of theft for which he was tried, determine the defendant was guilty of a different type of theft. However, as careful and persuasive as are the views expressed in that opinion upon the nature of the proof of the crime of theft by deception, I cannot agree that the Commonwealth must assume the burden that the lead opinion would impose in order to convict an accused of that charge.