Commonwealth v. Klosowski

The defendant was convicted on two complaints tried at the same time: one, charging him with exposing and keeping intoxicating liquors with intent unlawfully to sell the same on April 8, 1924; the other, with maintaining a tenement for the illegal keeping and sale of intoxicating liquors, between March 23, and April 18, 1924.

Intoxicating liquors were seized April 8, 1924, in a store in a building owned by the defendant, where for two or three weeks alterations had been in progress. He told a police officer that he was opening a hardware store and stocking it up; that he was spending $3,000 on…