Attorney General v. Justices of the Municipal Court
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed November 15, 1869, for a writ of mandamus to be directed to the justices of the municipal court of the city of Boston for the transaction of criminal business.
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Petition, filed November 15, 1869, for a writ of mandamus to be directed to the justices of the municipal court of the city of Boston for the transaction of criminal business. The petition alleged that on August 2,1869, Harrison D. Littlefield presented to said justices his complaint under oath, “ setting forth that he believed that gaming apparatus and implements were used, kept and provided to be used, in unlawful gaming, in certain rooms resorted to for the purpose of unlawful gaming, in a certain building situated and numbered 9 in Howard Street, in said Boston, that is to say, in the…
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
The searchwarrant in the present ca'se appears to have been issued in pursuance of the provisions of the Gen. Sts. *462c. 170, §§ 2, 3, 5, as modified by the subsequent St. of 1869 c. 364. The application and complaint were in proper form describing with all due precision the place that was to be searched, and giving, as the reason for the proposed search, the belief of the complainant that gaming apparatus and implements were used, and kept and intended to be used, in the place described as a common gaming-house; the warrant issued upon that complaint recites that it appears to the court that…
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