Commonwealth v. Quirk
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Complaint for keeping a common nuisance, to wit, a tenement used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors. Trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Blodgett, J., who, after a verdict of guilty, allowed exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The defendant, having been convicted by a trial justice of the offence of keeping and maintaining a tenement used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors, appealed to the Superior Court, and gave a recognizance to prosecute his appeal. The appeal was entered, and, under the Pub. Sts. c. 155, § 60, a copy of “ the conviction and other proceedings in the case ” was made by the trial justice, and transmitted to the Superior Court. The copy was defective in that the jurat of the complaint omitted the name of the trial justice. The defendant did not appear, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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