Commonwealth v. Brennan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for keeping a tenement used for the illegal keeping and sale of intoxicating liquors from January 1 to June 17, 1869. At the trial in the superior court, Wilkinson, J., allowed the Commonwealth, against the defendant’s objection, to put in evidence of sales by the defendant after May 1,1869. The defendant was found guilty and alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
The first section of the St. of 1868, c. 141, provides that no person, with certain specified exceptions, shall sell, or expose or keep for sale, intoxicating liquors, unless he is authorized to sell the same in the manner provided in the act, Section 2 provides that the county commissioners may grant licenses for the sale of such liquors; and other sections regulate the granting of licenses. By the St. of 1869, c. 191, the power to grant licenses is taken away, and it is declared that no licenses granted after April 30 shall have any validity. At this period the licenses granted in the…
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