Commonwealth v. Montross
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 5, Jan. T., 1898, by plaintiff, from judgment of Q. S. Wyoming Co., Nov. Sess., 1897, No. 13, on verdict of guilty. Indictment .for selling liquor without a license. Before Dun-ham, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Verdict of guilty and sentence thereon. Defendant appealed. JSrrors assigned among others were (1) in overruling defendant’s motion for leave to plead former acquittal or conviction.
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Appeal, No. 5, Jan. T., 1898, by plaintiff, from judgment of Q. S. Wyoming Co., Nov. Sess., 1897, No. 13, on verdict of guilty. Indictment .for selling liquor without a license. Before Dun-ham, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Verdict of guilty and sentence thereon. Defendant appealed. JSrrors assigned among others were (1) in overruling defendant’s motion for leave to plead former acquittal or conviction. (2) In rejecting the following offer of testimony by defendant: “We offer in evidence the indictment and verdict in No. 13, November sessions, Com. v. John…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The defendant was convicted under an indictment in which he was charged with selling “ on the ninth day of May, A. D. 1897, and at divers other times within the year past, .... spirituous, vinous, malt and brewed liquors and domestic wines, and *241admixtures thereof, to wit: brandy, rum, gin, whiskey, beer, ale, porter and cider to five named persons and divers other persons whose names are to the inquest unknown, without having obtained a license authorizing him so to do.”
Before the jury was sworn, the counsel for the defendant moved to quash the indictment, “because the…
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