Commonwealth v. Locke
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Police Court in Cambridge, made May 3, 1873, alleging that the defendant, May 7,1873, at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, “ unlawfully did receive certain intoxicating liquors, to wit, three gallons of lager bier in twenty-four bottles, nine gallons of porter in forty-eight bottles, three gallons of ale in twelve bottles, for the purpose, then and there, of conveying said liquors to' some person whose name is to the complainant unknown, and was. then and…
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Complaint to the Police Court in Cambridge, made May 3, 1873, alleging that the defendant, May 7,1873, at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, “ unlawfully did receive certain intoxicating liquors, to wit, three gallons of lager bier in twenty-four bottles, nine gallons of porter in forty-eight bottles, three gallons of ale in twelve bottles, for the purpose, then and there, of conveying said liquors to' some person whose name is to the complainant unknown, and was. then and there conveying said liquors in Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex, on Spruce Street in said Cambridge, to said person…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
The allegation of the complaint, that the liquors had been sold or were intended for sale contrary to the provisions of the St. of 1869, c. 415, sufficiently sets forth an illegal sale or intended sale, and thus makes criminal the charge against the defendant.
The St. of 1871, c. 334, §§ 1 and 4, restored ale, porter, strong beer and lager bier to the class of liquors to be considered intoxicating, and, as such, subject to the prohibitions contained in St. 1869, c. 415; and repealed §§ 2 and 3 of St. 1870, c. 389 *293Sections 2 and 3 of the St. of 1871, were provisions in the na turc of a power to…
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