Commonwealth v. Zelt
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEALS BY DEFENDANTS FROM THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. Nos. 188, 189, 190 October Term 1890, Sup.
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APPEALS BY DEFENDANTS FROM THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. Nos. 188, 189, 190 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, Nos. 24, 25 August Term 1890, Q. S. On August 22, 1890, to No. 24 August Term 1890, in the court below, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment charging Louis Zelt and John B. Porter with selling vinous, spirituous, malt and brewed liquors, and admixtures thereof, without a license; and on the same day, to No. 25 of the same term, an indictment was found charging the same defendants with having furnished liquors to Fred Chivers and others…
1Opinion of the Court
*625OPINION,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson :
Tlie defendants were jointly indicted in the court below for selling liquor without a license. Upon this indictment they were both convicted. A second indictment was found against them, charging them with selling liquor to persons of known intemperate habits. Upon this charge, the jury convicted Zelt, and acquitted the defendant Porter. A special allocatur for an appeal having been allowed by our Brother Clark during vacation, the cases were heard at the last term in the Western District. Both cases were argued together, and were contained in one paper-book,…
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