Commonwealth v. Saltzman

The defendant was convicted in the Superior Court on a complaint charging her with keeping, on May 19, 1926, intoxicating liquors with intent unlawfully to sell the same. At the trial the judge, subject to the defendant’s exception, permitted a police officer to testify that he went to a store at No. 63 Williams Street in Chelsea, and there had a conversation with one Samuel Saltzman (the defendant’s husband) in the presence of the defendant; that in reply to the officer’s question, “What is the trouble here?” Saltzman said, “she is selling liquor here, there is liquor in the store now.” To…