Commonwealth v. Sullivan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex, for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement in Cambridge, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, on January 1, 1884, and on divers other days and times between that day and April 9,1884. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: The clerk of said district court, on the first day of the term,…
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Complaint to the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex, for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement in Cambridge, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, on January 1, 1884, and on divers other days and times between that day and April 9,1884. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: The clerk of said district court, on the first day of the term, transmitted to the Superior Court copies of the complaint and record of the district court, certified to by him as true…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The Superior Court properly allowed the amended record of the district court to be filed before the trial. Commonwealth v. Foynes, 126 Mass. 267, and cases cited. The defendant was tried upon the same complaint to which he had pleaded in the court below. The exceptions show no error at the trial in the Superior Court. Exceptions overruled.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. FoynesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
3Cited by3 opinions
- Commonwealth v. CarneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
- Commonwealth v. VincentMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
- State v. WiseSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1910