Commonwealth v. McCormick
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint for keeping, on December 22, 1888, at Milford, intoxicating liquors with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth.
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Complaint for keeping, on December 22, 1888, at Milford, intoxicating liquors with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J., there was evidence that at the time in question the defendant occupied a one and a half story building with a basement situated at the corner of Lawrence Street and Lee Street in Milford; that the building above the basement was used by the defendant and her family as a dwelling-house, and fronted on Lawrence Street; that the basement was entered from Lee Street and was occupied by her as a shop,…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
The defendant kept liquors for sale in a shop which was parcel óf a dwelling-house, relying on a license issued to her by name, “ doing business at Lawrence Street, in her one and a half story building, to sell, or expose or keep for sale, until May 1, 1889, spirituous and intoxicating liquors, not to be drunk on the premises.” There was a question, which we need not consider, whether there were means of communication between the shop and the rest of the house. The court ruled that the license did not justify the defendant in keeping the liquor for sale.
The Public Statutes require all…
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