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77 Pa. Super. 379

Commonwealth v. Rizzo

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 14, 1921

Superior Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1921-07-14

Appeal, No. 149, April T., 1921, by defendant, from judgment and sentence of Q. S. Somerset County, Dec. Sessions, 1920, No. 51, on verdict of guilty in the case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. D. Rizzo. Indictment for selling liquor without a license. Before Berkey, P. J. From the record it appeared that the defendant sold . Horke Vino and Jamaica Ginger and offered to prove by way of a defense that the articles were approved for medicinal uses under the V olstead Act.

Affirmed · Decided 1921-07-14

¶1Opinion by

Henderson, J.,

¶2All of the material propositions presented for the consideration of the court on this appeal were considered and answered in the case of the Commonwealth v. Vigliotti, 75 Pa. Superior Ct. 366, and in the opinion of the Supreme Court in the same case filed May 26, 1921, and a restatement of the reasons on which the decisions are based is unnecessary.

¶3The court properly refused the offers of evidence covered by the second, fourth and fifth assignments, as the evidence tendered was not responsive to the indictment. The offer in evidence of a bottle of Horke Vino alleged to have been sold by the defendant was competent in *381connection with the other evidence in the case. The objection of the defendant to that offer was properly overruled.

¶4The assignments are dismissed; the judgment is affirmed, and the record remitted to the court below. And it is ordered that the defendant appear in that court at such time as he may be there called and that he be by that court committed until he has complied with the sentence or any part of it which had not been performed at the time the appeal in this case was made a supersedeas.

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