Commonwealth v. Perry

Three complaints for keeping and maintaining common nuisances, to wit, certain tenements used for the illegal sale and keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors. At the trial of each case in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Thompson, J., one Dickerson, a constable called as a witness by the government, testified that within the time covered by the complaint he went to the store of the defendant, who carried on the business of a druggist in Natick, and in the defendant’s absence purchased of a clerk in his employment half a pint of pure alcohol, and that he had the same put into a bottle…