Commonwealth v. Reynolds
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint for an illegal sale of intoxicating liquor. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J., two witnesses testified that March 23,1873, they went to the defendant’s dwelling-house twice; once in the forenoon, when they remained an hour and a half, and again in the afternoon ; that each time, one of them purchased whiskey of the defendant’s wife, in the kitchen of the house, the defendant not being present, but coming in while the witnesses were there,…
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Complaint for an illegal sale of intoxicating liquor. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J., two witnesses testified that March 23,1873, they went to the defendant’s dwelling-house twice; once in the forenoon, when they remained an hour and a half, and again in the afternoon ; that each time, one of them purchased whiskey of the defendant’s wife, in the kitchen of the house, the defendant not being present, but coming in while the witnesses were there, and having no conversation with them on the subject. This was all the material evidence in the ease. The defendant asked…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The evidence was sufficient, and the instructions were correct. Commonwealth v. Coughlin, 14 Gray, 389. Commonwealth v. Gannon, 97 Mass. 547.
Exceptions overruled.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. GannonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
3Cited by2 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SlavskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Commonwealth v. HylandMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891