Commonwealth v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Police Court of Haverhill for keeping and maintaining a certain tenement in Haverhill, for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, the same being a common nuisance. The record, transmitted to the Superior Court on appeal, was as follows: “ Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Essex, ss.
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Complaint to the Police Court of Haverhill for keeping and maintaining a certain tenement in Haverhill, for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, the same being a common nuisance. The record, transmitted to the Superior Court on appeal, was as follows: “ Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Essex, ss. By virtue of the within warrant, the respondent is brought before the Police Court of Haverhill, in said county of Essex, this ninth day of May, A. D. 1877, and the within complaint is read to him, and being asked whether he is guilty or not guilty of the offence within charged…
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
The St. of 1869, c. 385, provides that police courts shall be held for the transaction of criminal business daily; and the St. of 1877, c. 74, provides that the Police Court of Haverhill shall be held for civil business on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, and on such other days as the justice shall determine. It appears by the record that this case was tried May 9,1877, (which was Wednesday,) before the Police Court of Haverhill. A court was required by law to be held on that day for criminal business. It is to be presumed that such a court was held in obedience to the…
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