Commonwealth v. Weiss
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEFENDANT FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 1 OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 68 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 106 June Term 1889, C. P. No. 1. On March 19, 1889, Matthias Weiss entered in tbe court below an appeal from the judgment of an alderman, in an action brought against him by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for use of the county of Allegheny and A. L. Best, to recover the penalty of $100 imposed by § 3, act of May 21,1885, P. L. 22, upon every…
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APPEAL BY DEFENDANT FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 1 OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 68 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 106 June Term 1889, C. P. No. 1. On March 19, 1889, Matthias Weiss entered in tbe court below an appeal from the judgment of an alderman, in an action brought against him by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for use of the county of Allegheny and A. L. Best, to recover the penalty of $100 imposed by § 3, act of May 21,1885, P. L. 22, upon every person, etc., “ who shall manufacture, sell, or offer or expose for sale, or have in his.possession with intent to sell ”…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION,
Me. Justice Clark:
This was an action brought to recover the penalty of $100, *250provided for in the third section of the act of May 21,1885, P. L. 22, commonly known as the Oleomargarine Act. At the trial, the defendant submitted a point requesting the court to instruct the jury “that, if they (the jury) believe, from the evidence, that the defendant did not knowingly furnish, or authorize to be furnished, or know of being furnished, to any of his customers, any oleomargarine, but, so far as he knew, furnished genuine butter, then the verdict must be for the defendant.” The point was…
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