Commonwealth v. Stevens
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint charging the defendant with unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors to Mary A. Golden, a minor, on May 29, 1890. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which, so far as material to the points decided, appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
The defendant was a druggist, and was authorized by his license to sell intoxicating liquors for certain purposes, but not to minors. One of his clerks, made a sale to a minor, and the principal question at the trial was whether the defendant was criminally responsible therefor. There was evidence that he had instructed all of his clerks not to make sales to minors, nor, indeed, to any person under twenty-five years of age. The learned judge before whom the case was tried instructed the jury that if they were satisfied that these instructions were given by the defendant, but that the clerks…
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