Commonwealth v. Dam
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, in Middlesex, under the Gen. Sts. c. 87, §§ 6, 7, for maintaining a nuisance by keeping a tenement resorted to for prostitution and lewdness, in Lowell.
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Complaint, in Middlesex, under the Gen. Sts. c. 87, §§ 6, 7, for maintaining a nuisance by keeping a tenement resorted to for prostitution and lewdness, in Lowell. At the trial in the superior court, before Brigham, C. J., on appeal from the police court of Lowell, the Commonwealth introduced evidence tending to show that the defendant kept a shop with a room leading out of it, and also kept a tenement of four rooms adjoining the shop but not directly communicating with it, which was used by him as a residence for his family, and was the tenement mentioned in the indictment; that the shop was…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Coubt.
The ruling of the judge as to the order in which this evidence was introduced, being within his discretion, was not subject to exceptions. Commonwealth v. Moulton, 4 Gray, 39. The evidence was relevant; for both the conduct of the lewd persons who met at the shop, and the admission of the defendant, tended to show that they went from the shop to the tenement for the purpose of making it a nuisance in the manner alleged in the
indictment.
Exceptions overruled.
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