Commonwealth v. Congdon

The questions raised by the defendants’ bill of exceptions arose in the trial of two indictments together, at a sitting of the Superior Court for the county of Essex. *168The first indictment (No. 13022) charged the defendant Harold Congdon and fourteen others with conspiracy “to illegally expose and keep for sale certain intoxicating liquor ” in the town of Salisbury. The record shows that all the defendants were acquitted except Harold Congdon, Everett R. George, Ruel'S. Getchell, Warren S. Frothingham, and Howard F. George, and that each one of the convicted defendants was sentenced to…