Commonwealth v. Shurn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Central District Court of Worcester, for the sale at Worcester, on June 5, 1886, of intoxicating liquor to one John Buckley.
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Complaint to the Central District Court of Worcester, for the sale at Worcester, on June 5, 1886, of intoxicating liquor to one John Buckley. At the trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Staples, J., it was admitted that the defendant had a fourth class license, authorizing the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors in the town of Millbury at the time alleged in the complaint, and that no licenses were granted in Worcester for the year beginning May 1,1886. John Buckley, mentioned in the complaint, testified as follows: “I live in Worcester. I do not know the defendant. On June…
1Opinion of the CourtDevees, J.
The defendant excepted to the admission in evidence of a copy of a certain receipt, purporting to be from Sliurn, by one Harper, of the price of a certain half-barrel of porter. If the receipt itself would have been admissible as material upon the issue of the guilt of the defendant, it having been shown to have been taken into the possession of the defendant and his counsel, and they having refused to produce it, a copy was admissible. Commonwealth v. Goldstein, 114 Mass. 272.
The defendant further excepted to the refusal of the court to rule that there was no evidence sufficient in law to…
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