Parker v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In error from the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny -county. Oct. 11. The second count in this indictment, on which alone the cause was tried, averred that the defendant, in the year 1847, within the fourth ward of Pittsburgh, (in which ward there had been given a majority of votes “ against the sale of liquors,”) sold rum, &c., without having first obtained a license for that purpose. The plea was not guilty.
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In error from the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny -county. Oct. 11. The second count in this indictment, on which alone the cause was tried, averred that the defendant, in the year 1847, within the fourth ward of Pittsburgh, (in which ward there had been given a majority of votes “ against the sale of liquors,”) sold rum, &c., without having first obtained a license for that purpose. The plea was not guilty. The paper book then set forth the admissions by the parties that defendant, residing in said ward, had sold spirituous liquors in 1847; and that in said ward an election was held according…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
The defendant below, plaintiff in error, having been convicted upon an indictment, framed under the act of 7th of April, 1846, entitled “ An act authorizing the citizens of certain counties to decide by ballot whether the sale of vin'ous and spirituous liquors shall be continued in said counties,” the point is raised in this court whether the act is, in truth, a law of binding force.
It is to be regretted that this very grave constitutional inquiry, as it is presented to us, is interwoven with a question of public morals which has stirred the hearts and occupied the minds of the American…
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