State v. Morehead

Tillinghast, J.(1) The defendant, who has been convicted of keeping and maintaining a common nuisance in the town of Coventry, now petitions for a new trial on the ground of certain alleged erroneous rulings of the justice who presided at the trial, and also on the ground that the verdict is against the evidence. The indictment charges the keeping of a liquor nuisance. At the trial of the case it was agreed that the defendant had a license for the sale of intoxicating liquors in said town during all of the time covered by the testimony introduced by the State. In view of this fact, and of the…