State v. Intoxicating Liquors & Lawrence Pembroke
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Search and seizure process under the provisions of section 49 of chapter 29 of the Revised Statutes, begun in the Rumford Falls Municipal Court, Oxford County.
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On report. Search and seizure process under the provisions of section 49 of chapter 29 of the Revised Statutes, begun in the Rumford Falls Municipal Court, Oxford County. The complaint, omitting tlie formal parts, was as follows : “Harris L. Elliot, of Rumford, in the County of Oxford, competent to be a witness in civil suits, on the 23rd day of January A. D. 1904, in behalf of said state, on oath complains that he believes that on the 23rd day of January, in said year at said Rumford intoxicating liquors were, and still are kept and deposited by Lawrence Pembroke, of Rumford, in said County,…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
This case comes to the Law Court upon the - following agreed statement of facts:
“On January 23rd, 1904, one box of intoxicating liquors consigned, C. O. D. express prepaid, by Crigler & Crigler, Covington Kentucky to Lawrence Pembroke, 4 Byron Street, Rumford Falls, Maine, was seized from the office of the American Express Company at Rumford Falls by H. L. Elliott, a deputy sheriff for Oxford County, and the liquors were thereafter duly libelled.
“ Pembroke filed a claim for the liquors at the return day of the libel, but upon the facts then presented the judge of the Rumford Falls Municipal…
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