Mazer v. Commonwealth

The plaintiff in ¿rror was convicted of a violation of the prohibition law (Acts 1918, chapter 388) in having unlawful possession of a quart and a half of liquor, and sentenced to jail for six months and to pay a fine of five hundred dollars — the highest penalty prescribed by law for his offense. There are several assignments of error in the petition, but all of them were waived at the bar, on the oral argument, except the one hereinafter discussed.

Only two witnesses testified for the defendant, Mazer, on the merits of the case. They were the defendant and his daughter, Sarah Mazer. Their…