Commonwealth v. Finnerty
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Municipal Court of the Roxbury District of the city of Boston, dated August 6, 1888, and alleging that the defendant, on August 5, 1888, unlawfully did expose and keep for sale intoxicating liquors with intent unlawfully to sell the same within this Commonwealth. , At the trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Sherman, J., police officers testified that, upon going, on August 5, 1888, with a search-warrant to premises occupied by the defendant, they…
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Complaint to the Municipal Court of the Roxbury District of the city of Boston, dated August 6, 1888, and alleging that the defendant, on August 5, 1888, unlawfully did expose and keep for sale intoxicating liquors with intent unlawfully to sell the same within this Commonwealth. , At the trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Sherman, J., police officers testified that, upon going, on August 5, 1888, with a search-warrant to premises occupied by the defendant, they found in a small grocery store there kept by her four bottles of ale, marked golden ale, in an ice-chest, and some empty…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The defendant testified that she owned the yard and building referred to in the evidence, that she occupied *165a portion of the building, that there were three “ other tenants ” there, to whom she let the rooms which they occupied, and that the cellar and yard were used “ by all the tenants in the. building.” There was evidence that empty lager beer bottles, and ale in bottles, were found in her tenement; and, in that connection, testimony was competent that bottles of lager beer and bottles of ale, bearing the same marks as those found in her tenement, were found buried in different places in…
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