Commonwealth v. Line
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a tenement in Boston used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors, from June 28, 1888, to December 28, 1888. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Hammond, J., the government introduced evidence tending to show that the defendant, during the time alleged, lived in a house on Pleasant Street in Boston, being the tenement-in question, where he had a victualling saloon; that…
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Complaint for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a tenement in Boston used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors, from June 28, 1888, to December 28, 1888. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Hammond, J., the government introduced evidence tending to show that the defendant, during the time alleged, lived in a house on Pleasant Street in Boston, being the tenement-in question, where he had a victualling saloon; that on several occasions during the same time liquors in small quantities were found in the house by-officers ; and that a…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The record of a plea of guilty by the defendant to a complaint charging him with unlawfully keeping for sale intoxicating liquor at Boston on July 20,1888, was competent as a step in the proof that he kept a tenement used for the illegal sale and keeping of intoxicating liquor, as charged in the complaint before us. Standing by itself, it would not be sufficient proof, because his admission by the plea does not identify the place where the liquors were kept. But the government offered evidence tending to prove that the place where he kept liquor for sale on July 20, 1888, was the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Commonwealth v. AustinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Commonwealth v. HazeltineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871