Sifred v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 53. Indictment by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against John Sifred, Sr., and John Sifred, Jr., for selling and permitting liquor to bo sold at their tavern on Sunday. The defendants pleaded guilty. Thereupon the court sentenced the defendants each to pay a fine of $100, and each to be imprisoned in the county jail for sixty days, and to pay the costs of prosecution.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 53. Indictment by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against John Sifred, Sr., and John Sifred, Jr., for selling and permitting liquor to bo sold at their tavern on Sunday. The defendants pleaded guilty. Thereupon the court sentenced the defendants each to pay a fine of $100, and each to be imprisoned in the county jail for sixty days, and to pay the costs of prosecution. Thereupon the defendants took this writ of certiorari (which was specially allowed by Mercur, O. J.), assigning for…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mercur
The plaintiffs in error plead guilty to an indictment containing two counts. It is framed under section 1 of the Act of 26th February 1855, Pur. Dig. 946, pi. 38. The first count' charges them with selling liquors on Sunday ; the other count charges that they did unlawfully and knowingly allow and permit liquors to be drunk on Sunday, on and within the house and premises kept and maintained by them. The court thereupon sentenced them to imprisonment'for a period of sixty-days, and imposed a fine of $100 and the costs of prosecution on each under section 3 of said Act.
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