Commonwealth v. Ryan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The defendant was indicted, at the Municipal Court for the town of Boston, for keeping a table in his house for the purpose of playing at billiards for hire, &c., contrary to the statute of 1798, c. 20. <§> 2.; and being convicted below, he appealed to this Court at the last November term.
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The defendant was indicted, at the Municipal Court for the town of Boston, for keeping a table in his house for the purpose of playing at billiards for hire, &c., contrary to the statute of 1798, c. 20. <§> 2.; and being convicted below, he appealed to this Court at the last November term. Upon entering the appeal here, the defendant moved the Court that the indictment against him might be quashed; the penalty enuring to the town of Boston; and William Stephenson, the foreman of the grand jury who found the bill against him, being, at the time of the finding, a taxable inhabitant of said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was afterwards delivered by
Parsons, C. J.
The defendant was indicted at the Municipal Court, holden in Boston, upon the statute of 1798, c. 20. <§> 2., for keeping a billiard-table, and was convicted by a verdict, and sentenced. He appealed from the sentence to this Court, and now moves that the indictment may be quashed, because the penalty for the offence is fifty dollars for the use of the town of Boston, and the foreman of the grand jury who found the bill was a taxable inhabitant of Boston, and thus interested in the defendant’s conviction.
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