Commonwealth v. McGuire and Brennan

Opinion by

Henderson, J.,

The defendants were convicted on an indictment charging the possession and sale of intoxicating liquors. They were arrested at Carley Brook in Wayne County on the morning of July 28, 1925, to which place they had come from Scranton in charge of a truck which contained twenty half barrels of beer. McGuire testified that he came with the load as a companion of Brennan and that he had no interest in the truck or the beer. They accounted for their possession of the property by stating that the truck was loaded in Scranton before they saw it and that the defendant Brennan…