Commonwealth v. Goodman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, under Gen. Sts. c. 86, § 34, for unlawfully keeping intoxicating liquor with intent unlawfully to sell it. At the trial in the superior court, on appeal, before Devens, J., it having been proved that a quantity of beer and implements of sale were found March 15,1867, on the defendant’s premises in Easthampton, by Timothy P. Lyman, a state deputy constable, and the defendant contending that this beer was not intoxicating, Lyman testified that it was similar, in…
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Complaint, under Gen. Sts. c. 86, § 34, for unlawfully keeping intoxicating liquor with intent unlawfully to sell it. At the trial in the superior court, on appeal, before Devens, J., it having been proved that a quantity of beer and implements of sale were found March 15,1867, on the defendant’s premises in Easthampton, by Timothy P. Lyman, a state deputy constable, and the defendant contending that this beer was not intoxicating, Lyman testified that it was similar, in color, flavor and strength, to certain other beer taken from the stock of one Prouty in Northampton, and that both were…
1Opinion of the CourtBigelow, C. J.
We can entertain no doubt of the competency of the evidence of the chemical analysis of certain liquor which was introduced in support of the prosecution. It was not *119testimony concerning a collateral fact which furnished no inference bearing on the issue. There was evidence of the identity of the kind or quality of this liquor with that which was found on the premises of the defendant. It was called by the same name and was similar in color, flavor and strength. This laid the groundwork for proof of the constituent parts of which it was composed in order to show that it was intoxicating in…
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