Commonwealth v. Savery
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint for keeping intoxicating liquors with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth. Trial in the Superior Court, before Knowlton, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: The government introduced witnesses, who testified that they found upon the defendant’s premises, in different cases, beer in bottles known as lager-beer bottles; that four bottles of this beer were taken by the officers, one from each case.
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Complaint for keeping intoxicating liquors with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth. Trial in the Superior Court, before Knowlton, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: The government introduced witnesses, who testified that they found upon the defendant’s premises, in different cases, beer in bottles known as lager-beer bottles; that four bottles of this beer were taken by the officers, one from each case. It was agreed that in one of these bottles so taken the beer contained more than three per cent of alcohol, by volume, at sixty degrees…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
At the argument in this court, the counsel for the defendant conceded that, if the defendant kept the beer with the intention of selling it, it was not a defence to show that he believed that the beer contained not more than three per cent of alcohol. The keeping of intoxicating liquor for sale without a license is prohibited from considerations of public policy, and the defendant was bound to know the kind and quality of the articles he kept for sale. Commonwealth v. Boynton, 2 Allen, 160. Commonwealth v. Goodman, 97 Mass. 117. Commonwealth v. Raymond, 97 Mass. 567. Commonwealth v. Hallett,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Commonwealth v. RaymondMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Commonwealth v. GoodmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Commonwealth v. HallettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
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