Commonwealth v. Drew
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
At the March term, 1847, of the municipal court, the grand jury returned an indictment against William Drew, containing two counts, the first charging him with the offence of keeping a bowling alley, contrary to the provisions of the Rev. Sts. c. 50, § 17, and the other charging him with the offence of being a common seller of wine, &c., in contravention of the provisions of the Rev. Sts. c. 47, § 1. In the first count, it was alleged, that the defendant therein named did, “…
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At the March term, 1847, of the municipal court, the grand jury returned an indictment against William Drew, containing two counts, the first charging him with the offence of keeping a bowling alley, contrary to the provisions of the Rev. Sts. c. 50, § 17, and the other charging him with the offence of being a common seller of wine, &c., in contravention of the provisions of the Rev. Sts. c. 47, § 1. In the first count, it was alleged, that the defendant therein named did, “ for hire, gain, and reward, unlawfully suffer certain persons, whose names to said jurors are unknown, to resort to a…
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, C. J.
The defendant was tried in the municipal .court on an indictment charging him with two distinct of-fences, in separate counts; one being a violation of the license law, and the other that of keeping a bowling alley for hire and reward. The defendant pleaded in abatement the pendency of another indictment against him for the same causes, under the name of William Drew; to which indictment he had pleaded the misnomer in abatement, but no judgment had been entered. The plea in abatement, in the present case, had been overruled in the municipal court; and the defend' ant had then by order of…
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