Commonwealth v. Gee
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an indictment for setting up a public amusement without license therefor, in contravention of the act of 1849, c. 231, and was tried before Mellen, J., in the court of common pleas.
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This was an indictment for setting up a public amusement without license therefor, in contravention of the act of 1849, c. 231, and was tried before Mellen, J., in the court of common pleas. The indictment contained ten counts, in the first of which it was alleged, that the defendants, at Lowell, on the 20th of August, 1849, without any license or authority therefor, did set up, set on foot, maintain, and carry on, a certain public amusement, to wit, a certain dancing assembly to which divers persons obtained admission upon the payment of money. The second count alleged, that the defendants,…
1Opinion of the CourtDewey, J.
The first questions arising in the present case are those which relate to the impanelling of the jury, for the trial of the defendants upon this indictment. The regular list of jurors having been exhausted by reason of challenges for cause, the sheriff returned certain individuals from the bystanders to complete the panel.' As to these persons, the defendants asked the court, that the questions prescribed by the Rev. .Sts. c. 95, § 27, might be put, for the purpose of ascertaining whether such jurors had formed or expressed an opinion upon the cause, or had any bias or prejudice therein.…
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