Barnes v. Commonwealth

delivered the Opinion of the Court..

Ob’ the trial of an indictment against Barnes, for kceping a Tippling House in March, 1833 — after the Commonwealth had proved that he had retailed spirituous liquors, in that month and year, in a-house occupied by him, and kept as a tavern, — he proved that James C. I-Icndron had lived with him in the same house, during the year 1832 ; that they then did business there jointly, and were “probably jointly interested that Hendron had, in April, 1832, obtained a Licence for keeping a Tavern in the said house ; that he, Hendron, about the commencement of the…