Commonwealth v. Major

Upon the trial of an indictment against Olive T. Major, for keeping a tippling house, the Circuit Court refused to instruct the jury that, if they should believe from the evidence that an old negro man slave, the property of Major, had, with his master’s knowledge and permission, and in a house on his land, kept a tippling house, Major himself was, in judgment, of law, thereby guilty of keeping a tippling house.. And the jury having thereupon returned a verdict of not guilty, upon which ,<th§ Court rendered a judgment of acquital, the only question presented for revision is that involved in…