Commonwealth v. Chadwick
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Second District Court of Eastern Worcester, alleging that the defendant, on July 5, 1886, at Clinton, “ without any authority therefor,” sold intoxicating liquor to a person unknown. Trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Blodgett, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: The government called one Kenney as a witness, who testified, in substance: “I know where the defendant keeps a public place on Main Street in Clinton.
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Complaint to the Second District Court of Eastern Worcester, alleging that the defendant, on July 5, 1886, at Clinton, “ without any authority therefor,” sold intoxicating liquor to a person unknown. Trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Blodgett, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: The government called one Kenney as a witness, who testified, in substance: “I know where the defendant keeps a public place on Main Street in Clinton. I was there on July 5, and I saw liquor sold there on that day between eleven fifteen and eleven thirty, P. M. I did not go in.…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
The defendant’s license was subject to the conditions, that “ no sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquor shall be made between the hours of eleven at night and six in the morning ; nor during the Lord’s day, except,” &c.; and that he “ shall not keep a public bar.” Pub. Sts. c. 100, § 9, cl. 2, 5. St. 1885, e. 90, § 1.
The government’s witness testified that the sale he testified to in the lower court was the same sale he testified to in the Superior Court; but the defendant’s evidence tended to show that no sale was made after eleven o’clock. Whether the sale was made before or after eleven…
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