Commonwealth v. Pefferman

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 202
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 219

Syllabus

<p>Liquor law — Club management and distribution of liquor.</p> <p>An unlicensed sale of liquor, under guise of club distribution, would be clearly unlawful and the law will look through all disguises and so pronounce it. Com. v. Smith, 2 Pa. Superior Ct. 474, followed.</p> <p>Liquor law — Club sales — Evidence.</p> <p>On the trial of an indictment for selling liquor without a license, which charged certain members of a club with the unlawful distribution of liquor among the members, it was error to reject defendants’ offer to show that the club was incorporated; that defendants are all members of said corporation or association; that said association is organized in good faith with a selected membership of persons owning its property in common ; that the distribution of liquors among the members of said association is not a sale of same but a distribution among its members ; that no sales were made to any one, except members of said organization, and that said association was not formed for the purpose of evading the liquor license law.</p> <p>While the effect of all the evidence is a matter for after consideration, the question whether or not there was an illegal sale could only be arrived at satisfactorily after the rejected testimony had been admitted.</p>