Commonwealth v. Twenty Full Cases of Beer

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

Enforcement officers of the Liquor Control Board on November 8,1946, on a public highway in Berks County, seized a Dodge coupe owned by Joseph F. Hester and operated by Edward Guilf oyle, and a Buick sedan owned by Miriam Uhl and operated by her husband, Harry Uhl. At the time of the seizure, each automobile contained twenty cases of quart bottles of beer. The Commonwealth filed petitions for forfeiture of the automobiles and the beer under the provisions of section 611(b) of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Act as re-enacted and amended June 16, 1937, P. L. 1762, 47 PS…