Commonwealth v. Blos
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment on the Gen. Sts. a. 87, § 6, for keeping and maintaining a tenement used for the illegal sale and keeping of intoxicating liquor. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Lord, J., the government offered the evidence of S. Dana Hayes and C. O. Thompson, chemical experts, who had analyzed samples of beei admitted to have been sold by the defendant in the place and between the times alleged in the indictment.
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Indictment on the Gen. Sts. a. 87, § 6, for keeping and maintaining a tenement used for the illegal sale and keeping of intoxicating liquor. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Lord, J., the government offered the evidence of S. Dana Hayes and C. O. Thompson, chemical experts, who had analyzed samples of beei admitted to have been sold by the defendant in the place and between the times alleged in the indictment. It was also admitted that the place was kept by the defendant for the purpose of selling indiscriminately the beer such as was analyzed by Hayes and Thompson. Said witnesses…
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
Under the law of this Commonwealth the sale of liquors capable of producing intoxication is unlawful and criminal. Of these liquors, those that are known as spirituous form a class *58by themselves, and are treated by the statute as not requiring •* more specific description. The liquors that have intoxicating qualities, but not included in the class known by the appellation of spirituous, are within the prohibition of the law. The statute makes a partial enumeration of this latter class of liquors, and provides that “ ale, porter, strong beer, lager bier, and all wines, shall be considered…
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