State v. Ouellette
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by defendant. Indictment against the defendant Ouellette and one Archie * LeBlanc under Revised Statutes, chapter 22, section 1, for maintaining a liquor nuisance. On trial the defendant LeBlanc was acquitted while the defendant Ouellette was found guilty. During the trial the defendant Ouellette excepted to certain rulings. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPeabody, J.
This cause was an indictment against the respondent, Vital Ouellette, and one Archie LeBlanc, for maintaining a common nuisance, defined by sec. 1, chap. 22, R. S.
*93The prohibited acts specified in the indictment were the keeping and maintaining a certain place used for the illegal sale and for the illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, and where intoxicating liquors were sold for tippling purposes, and which place was a place of resort where intoxicating liquors were unlawfully kept, sold, given away, drank and dispensed.
On trial the respondent LeBlanc was acquitted, and the respondent…
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