Commonwealth v. Frost
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Police Court of Chelsea, alleging' that the defendant at Chelsea kept and maintained “ a certain common nuisance, to wit, a tenement in said city of Chelsea ” used for the illegal sale and keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors from December 1, 1890, to March 2, 1891. At the trial, on appeal, in the Superior Court, before Braley, J., the defendant, who kept an apothecary store, and who, it was admitted, held a license of the sixth class running from May 1,…
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Complaint to the Police Court of Chelsea, alleging' that the defendant at Chelsea kept and maintained “ a certain common nuisance, to wit, a tenement in said city of Chelsea ” used for the illegal sale and keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors from December 1, 1890, to March 2, 1891. At the trial, on appeal, in the Superior Court, before Braley, J., the defendant, who kept an apothecary store, and who, it was admitted, held a license of the sixth class running from May 1, 1890, to May 1, 1891, requested the judge to rule “ that, if the defendant made sales of intoxicating liquor for…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The defendant’s license did not authorize him to sell intoxicating liquor to be drunk on the premises, even though it were sold and bought as medicine. The instructions were correct. Commonwealth v. Mandeville, 142 Mass. 469.
Exceptions overruled. ■
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. MandevilleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886