Commonwealth v. Matthews
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, under the St. of 1875, c. 99, to the First District Court of Eastern Worcester, charging the defendant, on March 9, 1880, at Westborough, with unlawfully keeping intoxicating liquors, with intent to sell the same unlawfully.
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Complaint, under the St. of 1875, c. 99, to the First District Court of Eastern Worcester, charging the defendant, on March 9, 1880, at Westborough, with unlawfully keeping intoxicating liquors, with intent to sell the same unlawfully. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Allen, J., the government put in the evidence of L. J. Elwell, a deputy sheriff, who testified that he seized, on March 8, 1880, a quantity of beer in a cask in the defendant’s place of business, which was a grocery and saloon in Westborough, in which place was a beer-pump, bar and other saloon fixtures; and also the…
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
It appears from the bill of exceptions that there was evidence which tended to show that the defendant’s place of business was a grocery and saloon, furnished with a beer-pump, a bar and other saloon fixtures, and that intoxicating liquors were found there on the day before the filing of this complaint. We see no ground on which the defendant could object to proof that on the 24th day of May last, in court, he testified that he had intoxicating liquor at his shop some six weeks or two months before that date, and that he then conveyed it to his house. The prosecuting officer then inquired in…
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