Commonwealth v. Hecirrionic

Citations

• 39 Pa. Super. 510
• 1909 Pa. Super. LEXIS 521

Syllabus

<p>Liquor law — Selling without license.</p> <p>1. Where a person takes orders for liquor from different parties, and then orders liquor from a wholesale dealer in another county, and directs that it shall be sent to a particular address in separate parcels with a name and address on each parcel, and thereafter he pays for the liquor out of his own funds, personally distributes the packages to the different purchasers indicated by the names on the labels, and receives the price from such persons, he may be convicted of selling liquor without a license.</p> <p>2. In such a case the defendant is neither an agent for the wholesale dealer, nor for the purchasers, and the sale is complete in the county where the packages are delivered.</p> <p>Practice, C. P. — Trial—Charge.</p> <p>3. If a trial judge makes a statement to the jury alleged to be incorrect, counsel should call the attention of the judge to the mistake at once. He cannot sit silent and take his chances of a verdict, and then if it is adverse, complain of a matter which, if an error, would have been immediately rectified and made harmless.</p>