Commonwealth v. Mason
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement in Taunton used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, on May 1, 1883, and on divers other days and times between that day and September 6, 1883. Trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: One Conlin and two persons named Noyes testified to seeing sales of intoxicating liquor by the defendant to four…
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Indictment for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement in Taunton used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, on May 1, 1883, and on divers other days and times between that day and September 6, 1883. Trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: One Conlin and two persons named Noyes testified to seeing sales of intoxicating liquor by the defendant to four different persons, on June 8 and June 27, 1883, and one sale to Conlin on the premises; but, on cross-examination, they…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The instructions given were sufficiently favorable to the defendant, and he has no ground of exception. Commonwealth v. Trainor, 123 Mass, 414.
Exceptions overruled.
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