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· 5/30/1895

Commonwealth v. Heckler

Citations

  • 168 Pa. 575
  • 32 A. 52
  • 1895 Pa. LEXIS 840

Syllabus

<p>Liquor laws — Gift of liquor on Sunday — Elections.</p> <p>The act of May 18, 1887, P. L. 108, is, as it declares, “ to restrain and regulate the sale” of intoxicating liquors, and a person not a liquor dealer, who goes to his neighbcu’s house on Sunday for the purpose of asking him to go to the polls, and while in his neighbor’s wagon shed gives him a drink of whiskey, is not guilty of violating its provisions.</p>

Judges: Dean, Fell, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrett

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