Commonwealth v. Haher
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint charging that the defendant August 16, 1873, kept intoxicating liquors with intent to sell the same, without license or authority. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., upon appeal, the government offered evidence tending to show that the defendant kept liquors with intent to sell them on the day named. This evidence was confined to facts and circumstances existing on that day.
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Complaint charging that the defendant August 16, 1873, kept intoxicating liquors with intent to sell the same, without license or authority. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., upon appeal, the government offered evidence tending to show that the defendant kept liquors with intent to sell them on the day named. This evidence was confined to facts and circumstances existing on that day. The government was then allowed, against the defendant’s objection, to show that on the 19th of the preceding month the defendant was in the same place, which was a bar room where liquors…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The evidence was clearly competent for the purpose for which it was admitted. It is therefore unnecessary to consider whether its admission was not more strictly limited than the law required. Exceptions overruled.
2Cited by1 opinion
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