Commonwealth v. Carey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 28 and 29, Oct. T., 1892, by defendant, James Carey, from judgments of Q. S. Lawrence Co., Dec. T., 1891, Nos. 10, 11, on verdicts of guilty. Indictments for furnishing liquors on Sunday and to minors. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeals, Nos. 28 and 29, Oct. T., 1892, by defendant, James Carey, from judgments of Q. S. Lawrence Co., Dec. T., 1891, Nos. 10, 11, on verdicts of guilty. Indictments for furnishing liquors on Sunday and to minors. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Defendant’s points, as follows, were refused by the court, Hazen, P. J: “ 1. If the jury shall find that the liquors were furnished by defendant at a camp, where he and a party of friends were camping, as a fishing club, for recreation or any lawful purpose, and were furnished to the parties charged in the indictment whilst…
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Opinion by
Mb. Justice Williams,
The indictment in No. 10 December sessions charged the defendant with furnishing liquors on Sunday. That in No. 11 charged a furnishing to minors. Both indictments are drawn under the seventeenth section of the act of 1887 known as the High License Law, and both turn upon the same question. The acts of furnishing were not denied. The defendant denied that he was a dealer in liquors, or that he kept or maintained any room or place at which liquors were dispensed by sale or gift in violation of law; and asserted that he was a private citizen, and as such…
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