Commonwealth v. Dudley
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 68, April T., 1911, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Washington Co., May T., 1910, No. 142, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. O. A. Yolton and E. G. Dudley. Indictment for selling liquor without a license and for conspiracy. Before McIlvaine, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case.
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Appeal, No. 68, April T., 1911, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Washington Co., May T., 1910, No. 142, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. O. A. Yolton and E. G. Dudley. Indictment for selling liquor without a license and for conspiracy. Before McIlvaine, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. At the trial when Linn Brookman was on the stand the following offer was made: The commonwealth offers to prove by the witness on the stand that on one occasion he went to the drug store of E. G. Dudley, one of the defendants; he was there waited upon by a girl…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Beaver, J.,
The district attorney of Washington county, by leave of court, laid before the grand jury, then in session, an indictment containing five different counts. The first charged the defendants with a conspiracy to sell “vinous, spirituous, malt and brewed liquors, and admixtures thereof, to a person, and to divers persons then and there being, without first having obtained a license agreeably to law for that purpose, in violation,” etc.
Second, charging both defendants jointly with having “sold and offered for sale vinous, spirituous, malt and brewed liquors and admixtures…
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- Commonwealth v. GougerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1902
- Commonwealth v. BreyesseeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
- Commonwealth v. FlahertySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
- Henwood & Arney v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1866
- Commonwealth v. GillespieSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1822
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