Commonwealth v. Payne

McCreary, P. J.,

At the above stated term and number defendant, Ben Payne, was indicted on a charge which reads as follows:

“That Ben Payne late of the County aforesaid, yoeman, on the twenty-third day of February in the *463year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight in the County aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this court, with force and arms did then and there unlawfully, within this state, to-wit: at Third Avenue, in the Borough of New Brighton, in said County, did keep for sale and gratuitous distribution nostrums for the purpose of preventing conception.”

This…