Commonwealth v. Bickum
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two COMPLAINTS against the defendant, to the Police Court of Haverhill, one for keeping a common nuisance from February 1 to May 23, 1890, and the other for an illegal sale of intoxicating liquor on July 31 following. The cases were tried together in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Sherman, J., and, after a verdict of guilty in each case, the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
The first complaint was received and sworn to on May 23, 1890, and charged the defendant with maintaining at Haverhill a certain tenement, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors “ on the first day of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of making this complaint.” The second complaint was received and sworn to on August 4, 1890, and charged the defendant with unlawfully selling at Haverhill intoxicating liquors “on the thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord…
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