Commonwealth v. Dunster

This is a complaint to the Central District Court of Worcester, which charges that the defendant, “ on the first day of May in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, at Worcester in said county, and on divers other days and times between that day and the seventeenth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, did keep and maintain a certain tenement there situate, then and there used for the illegal sale and for the illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors.”

The defendant was convicted in the district court, and appealed to the Superior Court. In the latter court, before…