Commonwealth v. Berdenella

Opinion by

Me. Justice Sadler,

Defendant was indicted in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Cambria County for illegally possessing intoxicating liquor in violation of the Act of March 27, 1923, P. L. 34. At the trial, the Commonwealth proved the discovery of three quarts of whiskey in his home, which admittedly contained more than one-half of one per cent alcohol. In defense, appellant, admitting the purchase of the liquor in 1925, without a physician’s prescription, explained, as did his wife, that it had been secured solely for medicinal purposes, and was used in rubbing his legs for…