Sanders v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE GREENE; COUNTY. No. 171 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 17 January Term 1887, Q. S. With this cause there was argued and decided Thomas v. The Commonwealth, No. 172 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 17 April Term 1887, Q. S., in which the same questions were involved.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OE QUARTER SESSIONS OE GREENE; COUNTY. No. 171 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 17 January Term 1887, Q. S. With this cause there was argued and decided Thomas v. The Commonwealth, No. 172 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 17 April Term 1887, Q. S., in which the same questions were involved. On January 5,1887, an indictment of Warren Sanders for the unlawful and willful sale of vinous, spirituous, malt and brewed liquors and admixtures thereof to Lem. McMasters and others named, was found a true bill. Process was awarded and on June 21, 1887, the…
1Per curiam
The effect of the Bd section of the act of the 13th of May, 1887, P. L. 108, is to permit the granting of licenses under former laws up to the 30th of June, 1887. This necessarily keeps in full force all the previous provisions and penalties connected with the granting of such licenses, not only up to the time aforesaid, but until the expiration of such licenses. It would be a curious legal anomaly to hold that the liquor vender might have his license under the former act, and yet be exempt from the conditions to which by the same act it was made subject. It follows, that the court below was…
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