Seifried v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county: Of October Term 1882, No. 144. This was an indictment against John Seifried, Sr., which set out that the defendant “on April 13th 1882 ... at the county aforesaid and within the jurisdiction of this court, did unlawfully sell and cause to lie sold to......, rum, whisky, ale, beer, wine and other vinous, spirituous, malt and brewed liquors, without having first obtained a license agreeably to law for that purpose,…
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Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county: Of October Term 1882, No. 144. This was an indictment against John Seifried, Sr., which set out that the defendant “on April 13th 1882 ... at the county aforesaid and within the jurisdiction of this court, did unlawfully sell and cause to lie sold to......, rum, whisky, ale, beer, wine and other vinous, spirituous, malt and brewed liquors, without having first obtained a license agreeably to law for that purpose, contrary to the act. of general assembly in that 'Case made and provided . . . . ” At the trial, before Hunter, P. J.,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
The Act of March 27th 1867, prohibits the issue of license to any person to sell spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors, for drinking purposes, within the township of Derry, in the county of Westmoreland, and provides, that if any person shall, for the purposes aforesaid, sell any such liquors, within said township, he or she, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars ; and, upon a second conviction thereof, in addition to the fine, shall undergo an imprisonment of not more than three months.
It is admitted on the part of the…
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