Commonwealth v. Adams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint on the Gen. Sts. o. 88, § 70, to a trial justice in Middlesex, averring that on September 9, 1871, the defendant did suffer to be kept, in a building owned by him in Marlborough, a table for the purpose of playing at billiards for hire, gain and reward, without any license first obtained according to law.
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Complaint on the Gen. Sts. o. 88, § 70, to a trial justice in Middlesex, averring that on September 9, 1871, the defendant did suffer to be kept, in a building owned by him in Marlborough, a table for the purpose of playing at billiards for hire, gain and reward, without any license first obtained according to law. After a verdict of guilty in the superior court on appeal, Pit-man, J., reported to this court the case which is stated in the opinion, the verdict to be set aside if it could not be supported upon facts which were reported as admitted by the defendant, otherwise the defendant to…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The statute provides that whoever, without a license from the mayor and aldermen or selectmen, keeps or suffers to be kept in a house, building, yard, or dependency thereof, by him actually occupied or owned, a table for the purpose of playing at billiards for hire, gain or reward, shall be subject to a fine. Gen. Sts. e. 88, § 70. In the case at bar, it was shown at the trial, that the defendant fitted up a room in a building owned by him with three billiard tables, and let the room and the tables to John Shehan for the agreed price of ten dollars per week; and that the tables, "with the…
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