Commonwealth v. Acton

This is a complaint for keeping and maintaining a certain tenement in Fall River, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping for sale of intoxicating liquor. While several exceptions were taken at the trial, the defendant now relies upon two, which we proceed to consider.

1. A police officer, named McCarthy, who had testified to certain facts tending to show that the tenement in question was under the control of the defendant, and who with other officers had taken from the premises a pail, certain bottles, and some beer, was asked, on cross-examination, whether a copy of a notice was in his…