Commonwealth v. Prickett
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEFENDANT FROM THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 109 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 10 October Term 1889, Q. S. On June 5, 1889, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment in four counts charging Frank Prickett witb violations of the liquor laws.
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APPEAL BY DEFENDANT FROM THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 109 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 10 October Term 1889, Q. S. On June 5, 1889, the grand jury returned as a true bill an indictment in four counts charging Frank Prickett witb violations of the liquor laws. The first count charged a sale of liquors without license; the second, that the defendant being a druggist and apothecary, unlawfully sold intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage, without tbe written prescription of a physician and without a license; and the third, that the defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson :
The defendant was convicted upon the first, second and third counts of the indictment. The first count charged him generally with selling liquor without a license; the second, with *374selling as a druggist without a written prescription of a regularly registered physician; while the third charged him with selling more than once upon the same prescription. The defendant was sentenced to pay a fine of $500, and to undergo an imprisonment of three months in the county jail, under the first paragraph of the fifteenth section of the act of 1887, which prescribes the…
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