Commonwealth v. Certain Intoxicating Liquors
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint on the St. of 1869, c. 415, § 44, by William Mooney and Benjamin H. Linscott, “to the justices of the municipal court of the city of Boston, holden at said Boston for the transaction of criminal business within and for said county,” for a warrant of search for certain intoxicating liquors.
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Complaint on the St. of 1869, c. 415, § 44, by William Mooney and Benjamin H. Linscott, “to the justices of the municipal court of the city of Boston, holden at said Boston for the transaction of criminal business within and for said county,” for a warrant of search for certain intoxicating liquors. This complaint alleged that on July 7, 1869, the liquors, which it described, “ were, and still are, kept and deposited by John Harvey of said Boston, in a certain dwelling-house situate on Portland Street, and numbered 57 on said street in said Boston, and occupied by said Harvey as a place of…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
1. The St. of 1869, c. 415, § 44, designates the tribunal that is authorized to receive complaints, by its character and jurisdiction, and not by the name it may happen to bear. In this sense, the “ municipal court of the city of Boston ” is a police court.
2. By St. 1869, c. 17, § 2, the municipal court of the city of Boston has concurrent jurisdiction with the municipal court for the southern district of the city of Boston, over cases of this nature arising in said southern district. The exclusive jurisdiction intended by said section has reference to the exclusion of other police courts, as…
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