Commonwealth v. Ward

The defendant was found guilty upon a complaint under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 271, § 7, which charged that he “did unlawfully promote a certain lottery .for money or other property of value”; and upon each of the five counts of another complaint, under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 271, § 5, which, in slightly varying language, charged that at a store numbered as stated upon a stated street in New Bedford, he “did commonly keep and suffer' to be kept in a building” or “in a building or place” “actually occupied by him” or “actually used and occupied by him” “certain apparatus, to wit, a slot machine, for…