State v. Therrien
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. This was a search and seizure process against the defendant for illegally keeping and depositing intoxicating liquor in a certain shop and its appurtenances, situated on the east side of Lincoln street in Lewiston, on the twenty-eighth day of November, A. D., 1892. The evidence on the part of the State tended to show that the intoxicating liquors described in the complaint were found upon the person of the defendant and were taken from his pocket just as he…
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On exceptions. This was a search and seizure process against the defendant for illegally keeping and depositing intoxicating liquor in a certain shop and its appurtenances, situated on the east side of Lincoln street in Lewiston, on the twenty-eighth day of November, A. D., 1892. The evidence on the part of the State tended to show that the intoxicating liquors described in the complaint were found upon the person of the defendant and were taken from his pocket just as he stepped outside of the front door, by one of the officers executing the process. The defendant thereupon moved for his…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
The complainant, a deputy sheriff, found a bottle of whiskey on the person of the defendant, and took it from his pocket, just as the latter stepped outside of the front door of his shop on Lincoln street in Lewiston. The officer then made this complaint, charging that intoxicating liquors were unlawfully kept, and deposited by the defendant "in the shop and its appurtenances occupied by him” on Lincoln street, and alleging that the complainant had previously found a bottle of whiskey "upon the above described premises,” and praying for process to seize "the said liquors.” The warrant…
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