Commonwealth v. Jacobson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 24, April T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Mercer Co., April T., 1917, No. 62, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Louis Jacobson. Indictment for selling liquor without a license. Before MoLaughry, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict of guilty upon which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Error assigned, was the judgment of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The appellant is a wholesale liquor dealer residing in Youngstown, Ohio, where he has a warehouse for the purpose of his business. When the case was first presented to this court it appeared from the record that no issue had ever been arrived at in the court below, the defendant had not even filed a plea, but the parties had agreed upon certain facts, in the nature of a case stated, which they had submitted for the judgment of the court. The irregularity of this practice was called to the attention of the parties and, there being no dispute as to the facts, counsel being…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Clark Distilling Co. v. Western Maryland Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1917
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
- Star Brewing Company's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1910
- Commonwealth v. HullSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1917