Commonwealth v. McCullow
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Second District Court of Eastern Middle-sex, for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement in Waltham, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, on November 1, 1883, and on divers other days and times between that day and March 17, 1884. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., the government introduced evidence tending to show that, under a warrant for that purpose, a search was made of…
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Complaint to the Second District Court of Eastern Middle-sex, for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement in Waltham, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, on November 1, 1883, and on divers other days and times between that day and March 17, 1884. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., the government introduced evidence tending to show that, under a warrant for that purpose, a search was made of the premises occupied by the defendant, which consisted of a store and a dwelling-house or tenement over said store. No…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The fact that intoxicating liquors were found in the tenement of the defendant’s mother, under the circumstances stated in the bill of exceptions, was competent. A large quantity was found in a room adjoining the tenement of the defendant, which had a door communicating with his tenement. *372The facts that a large quantity was found, that the mother kept house by herself, and would not be likely to have so large a supply for her own use, that the defendant had access to the room, joined with the fact that no evidence was offered to show that the liquors belonged to any other person,…
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