Commonwealth v. Tate
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint for keeping intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell the same, received and sworn to July 15,1900. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Stevens, J., it appeared that the defendant was a retail druggist at Clinton, licensed as a pharmacist and also holding a liquor license of the sixth class, authorizing him to sell intoxicating liquors for medicinal, mechanical and chemical purposes not to be drunk on the premises.
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Complaint for keeping intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell the same, received and sworn to July 15,1900. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Stevens, J., it appeared that the defendant was a retail druggist at Clinton, licensed as a pharmacist and also holding a liquor license of the sixth class, authorizing him to sell intoxicating liquors for medicinal, mechanical and chemical purposes not to be drunk on the premises. The premises consisted of two rooms, the front room being an ordinary drug store equipped as such. The rear of this front room was somewhat elevated,…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
In this case the government introduced evidence that the defendant was a druggist, and that on a certain Sunday in the middle of July several officers entered the prisoner’s premises under a search warrant and found, in a room which was a part of those premises and which was back of the room used as a drug store, a number of men, several of whom had bottles containing lager beer in their hands ; that in the corner of this room there was a closet, which was unlocked by the prisoner, and in it the officers found a washtub containing a large piece of ice, some water, and twenty-seven bottles…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Commonwealth v. McNeeseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Commonwealth v. MandevilleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
- Commonwealth v. BerryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
- Commonwealth v. CannyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Commonwealth v. KeenanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886