Stewart v. Commonwealth

Citations

• 117 Pa. 378
• 11 A. 370
• 1887 Pa. LEXIS 271

Syllabus

<p>1. While a court may regulate the exercise of the right of a defendant in a criminal prosecution to be heard by counsel before the jury, yet the right to be so heard is a constitutional right and it is beyond the power of the court to deny it altogether.</p> <p>2. Evidence that a defendant, indicted for the unlawful sale of liquors under § 15, act of May 13, 1887, P. L. 113, as the agent of a licensed distiller doing business at a distance, solicited and received orders and money for liquors by the gallon, and, after the orders were filled by the distiller to whom they were addressed, delivered the packages containing the liquors to the persons ordering, is sufficient to authorize a conviction.</p>