Bare v. Commonwealth

The petitioner was convicted under an indictment charging him with unlawfully dispensing and giving away cider containing more than one per cent, of alcohol by volume, in violation of the prohibition act (the Mapp law, Acts 1916, p. 216), and sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars and be imprisoned in the county jail for one month and afterwards until the fine and costs are paid.

The pertinent facts are, that the accused manufactured *786cider “from fruit of his own raising” and stored the same in an outhouse seventy-five or eighty feet from his dwelling, between which and his dwelling were…