Commonwealth v. Dunn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment under the Gen. Sts. c. 87, §§ 6, 7, charging that the defendant at Natick, on July 12, 1872, without having any license, appointment or authority, first duly had and obtained according to law, to keep intoxicating liquors for sale, and without having any license, appointmbnt or authority, first duly had and obtained according to law, to sell intoxicating liquors, did maintain a tenement for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors.
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Indictment under the Gen. Sts. c. 87, §§ 6, 7, charging that the defendant at Natick, on July 12, 1872, without having any license, appointment or authority, first duly had and obtained according to law, to keep intoxicating liquors for sale, and without having any license, appointmbnt or authority, first duly had and obtained according to law, to sell intoxicating liquors, did maintain a tenement for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors. At the trial in the Superior Court in Middlesex, . before the jury were empanelled, the defendant moved to quash the indictment…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The only question reserved is upon the motion to quash the indictment for alleged defects therein; and the indictment is sufficient, as has been often decided. Commonwealth v. Grady, 108 Mass. 412, and cases cited. Commonwealth v. Intoxicating Liquors, 110 Mass. 416.
Judgment on the verdict.
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Commonwealth v. Certain Intoxicating LiquorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
- Commonwealth v. GradyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871