Commonwealth v. Hughes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, upon the Pub. Sts. c. 101, §§ 6, 7, for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a tenement in Brockton, used for the illegal keeping and illegal sale of intoxicating liquors from January 1, 1891, to June 8, 1891. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., the testimony for the government, as given by several police officers, was that the defendant’s place of business, being the tenement in question, was situated at the corner of Lincoln…
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Indictment, upon the Pub. Sts. c. 101, §§ 6, 7, for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a tenement in Brockton, used for the illegal keeping and illegal sale of intoxicating liquors from January 1, 1891, to June 8, 1891. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., the testimony for the government, as given by several police officers, was that the defendant’s place of business, being the tenement in question, was situated at the corner of Lincoln Street and Railroad Avenue in Brock-ton, and part of it was fitted up as a bottling establishment; that the defendant was…
1Per curiam
The evidence was proper for the consideration of the jury, and was sufficient to warrant a verdict of guilty. Commonwealth v. Burke, 114 Mass. 261, 263. Commonwealth v. Intoxicating Liquors, 116 Mass. 24. Commonwealth v. McCluskey, 123 Mass. 401.
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Commonwealth v. McCluskeyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Commonwealth v. BurkeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Commonwealth v. Certain Intoxicating LiquorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874