Commonwealth v. Adler

Citations

• 72 Pa. Super. 45
• 1919 Pa. Super. LEXIS 244

Syllabus

<p>Liquor law — Selling liquor without a license — Delivery by common carrier.</p> <p>Under the law of Pennsylvania, it is not a criminal offense for a carrier to deliver liquor to a purchaser when the carrier does not know that the sale is unlawful.</p> <p>Where the owner of a transfer company received consignments of liquor from the trucks of a wholesale liquor dealer, properly directed to various individuals, and delivered them at the usual transfer rate, and also collected a fee of $.05 for each empty case or keg collected and redelivered to the ¿gents of the wholesale liquor dealer, he is not guilty of selling liquor without a license.</p>