Commonwealth v. Hanley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the District Court of East Norfolk, alleging the keeping, at Weymouth, on January 10, 1885, of certain intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth.
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Complaint to the District Court of East Norfolk, alleging the keeping, at Weymouth, on January 10, 1885, of certain intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth. Trial in the Superior Court, before Knowlton, J,, who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: The government offered evidence tending to show that the defendant, on and before January 13,1885, kept a certain saloon in Weymouth; that, on said January 13, three officers, who were witnesses, visited the saloon, which then contained a bar, bottles, jugs, glasses, and a barrel of cider…
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
The first point taken by the defendant is settled by the decision in Commonwealth v. Fontain, 127 Mass. 452, and the second by that in Commonwealth v. Scott, 123 Mass. 239.
Exceptions overruled.
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Commonwealth v. ScottMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Commonwealth v. FontainMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
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