Commonwealth v. Ronan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the District Court of East Norfolk, on the Gen. Sts. c. 87, §§ 6, 7, for keeping and maintaining on January 1, 1878, and on divers other days between that day and July 22, 1878, a certain tenement in Weymouth, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, the same being a common nuisance.
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Complaint to the District Court of East Norfolk, on the Gen. Sts. c. 87, §§ 6, 7, for keeping and maintaining on January 1, 1878, and on divers other days between that day and July 22, 1878, a certain tenement in Weymouth, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, the same being a common nuisance. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J., there was evidence tending to show that intoxicating liquor was kept and sold by the defendant, from January 1, 1878, to the middle of June, 1878, in one tenement, and from that time to July 22, 1878, in another…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The defendant has no ground of exception to the proceedings and instructions at the trial. His conviction in both courts must be of the same offence, but need not be upon the same evidence. Commonwealth v. Fields, 119 Mass. 105. Commonwealth v. Crawford, 9 Gray, 129.
Exceptions overruled.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. FieldsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
3Cited by1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. McNeffMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888