Commonwealth v. Taylor
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Second District Court of Southern Worcester alleging that “ John Taylor, on the tenth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, at Uxbridge, in said county, without any authority therefor, did keep intoxicating liquor, with intent to sell the same in said Commonwealth.'’ The warrant commanded the officer “ to arrest John Taylor, if he may be found in your precinct, and him bring before the Second District Court of Southern Worcester, in…
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Complaint to the Second District Court of Southern Worcester alleging that “ John Taylor, on the tenth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, at Uxbridge, in said county, without any authority therefor, did keep intoxicating liquor, with intent to sell the same in said Commonwealth.'’ The warrant commanded the officer “ to arrest John Taylor, if he may be found in your precinct, and him bring before the Second District Court of Southern Worcester, in said county, to answer to the complaint of Samuel J. Fletcher, made under oath against the said defendant, for that said…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
1. As the offence charged was within the jurisdiction "of the District Court, the want of an allegation of the defendant’s residence was immaterial. Gen. Sts. c. 172, § 19.
2. The statute establishing the District Court makes no provision for a trial by jury in that court, except in civil actions. In all criminal cases brought before it, the proceedings are like those in police courts, and a trial by jury can only be had in the Superior Court on appeal. St. 1872, c. 201, §§ 1, 6.
3. The remaining ground of the motion to dismiss was removed by the amendment of the original record of the District…
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