Commonwealth v. Ingersoll
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Police Court of Gloucester for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement in Gloucester, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, on July 1, 1886, and on divers other days and times between that day and December 7, 1886. Trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Hammond, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows : The government called as a witness one Thompson, who testified…
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Complaint to the Police Court of Gloucester for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement in Gloucester, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, on July 1, 1886, and on divers other days and times between that day and December 7, 1886. Trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Hammond, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows : The government called as a witness one Thompson, who testified that he lived in Watertown ; that he had been hired by a person in Watertown to go to Gloucester, and there make purchase…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The court was not required to give the in-
struction requested by the defendants. The weight to be given to the testimony of the witness for the government was for the jury; and the instructions given were sufficiently favorable to the defendants. Commonwealth v. Trainor, 123 Mass. 414. Commonwealth v. Mason, 135 Mass. 555.
Exceptions overruled.
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Commonwealth v. TrainorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Commonwealth v. MasonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
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