Commonwealth v. Eagan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a tenement in Newton used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., there was evidence tending to prove the guilt of the defendant.
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Complaint for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a tenement in Newton used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., there was evidence tending to prove the guilt of the defendant. The defendant called as a witness a person who lived near the tenement in question, and, after examining her as to her knowledge of the premises and her opportunities for observing them, asked her, “ What was the general reputation of the place or tenement kept by the defendant in the neighborhood where she resided…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The question concerning the general reputation of the tenement kept by the defendant was rightly excluded.
Exceptions overruled.
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