Commonwealth v. Martin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, for unlawfully keeping for sale intoxicating liquors with intent to sell the same unlawfully, on January 14, 1894. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Lilley, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The case needs no discussion. The fact that there were in the defendant’s carpenter shop thirty-seven bottles of lager beer, seventy-three empty lager beer bottles, a four-gallon jug full of whiskey, another four-gallon jug containing about a quart of the same liquor, a tunnel, a corkscrew, and three bottles known as “ smugglers ” all smelling of whiskey, with the way in which these articles were placed in the shop, justified the verdict of guilty.* Exceptions overruled.
The thirty-seven bottles of lager beer were found in a dry-goods box and in a leather bag, those in the dry-goods box being…
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