Commonwealth v. Brothers
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, to the Police Court of Lowell, for unlawfully exposing and keeping for sale intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth, on March 13, 1892, at Lowell. Trial in the Superior Court, before Fessenden, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The case came on for trial at the June sitting, 1892, at East Cambridge.
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Complaint, to the Police Court of Lowell, for unlawfully exposing and keeping for sale intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth, on March 13, 1892, at Lowell. Trial in the Superior Court, before Fessenden, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The case came on for trial at the June sitting, 1892, at East Cambridge. Before the jury were impanelled, the defendant moved that the case be postponed to the October sitting, 1892, at Lowell, which motion was denied; and thereupon the defendant moved that the court then adjourn to…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
1. No legal or constitutional right of the defendant was violated by the refusal of the presiding justice to postpone the trial, or to adjourn the court to Lowell. Commonwealth v. Hurley, ante, 159.
2. The provisions of Pub. Sts. c. 100, § 12, forbidding licensees to place or maintain screens, blinds, curtains, etc., in such a way as to interfere with a view of the business conducted upon the premises, apply to licensees of the sixth class as well as to all other licensees; and it is provided by St. 1882, c. 259, that the placing or maintaining of any such obstructions shall of itself make the…
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