Commonwealth v. Robinson

The bill of exceptions in this case presents some questions of certainly unusual, if not entirely novel character.

The complaint made to a District Court charges the defendant with keeping a tenement used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors at Braintree, on January 1, 1878, and on divers other days and times between that day and August 20, 1878.

The bill of exceptions states that “ in the Superior Court, the case being called for trial, the defendant having duly filed a plea in bar alleging a former acquittal of the same offence, and issue having been…