Commonwealth v. Street

Stern and Gordon, JJ.,

On Aug. 25,1923, at about half-past one in the morning, Ernest Street, Alvin Street and Louis L. Celia, defendants in the above cases, were each driving a five-ton truck on the Roosevelt Boulevard, in Philadelphia. Three detectives, having received information that trucks of beer were going over the Boulevard to New York, stationed themselves at Castor Road and stopped the defendants’ vehicles at that point. They announced to the drivers that they were officers of the law and asked them what they had on their trucks. Ernest Street and Louis E. Celia said that they did…