Commonwealth v. Lynch
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, charging the defendant with illegally keeping intoxicating liquors with intent to sell the same, at Marblehead, on April 14, 1894. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Lilley, J., there was evidence tending to show that on and prior to the above date one Bridget White, whose daughter was the wife of the defendant, illegally sold liquor in a house situated on premises distant about one hundred yards from the house in which the defendant lived; that on and…
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Complaint, charging the defendant with illegally keeping intoxicating liquors with intent to sell the same, at Marblehead, on April 14, 1894. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Lilley, J., there was evidence tending to show that on and prior to the above date one Bridget White, whose daughter was the wife of the defendant, illegally sold liquor in a house situated on premises distant about one hundred yards from the house in which the defendant lived; that on and prior to that date the said White also kept a grocery store on her premises; that, on January 6, the defendant and his wife…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The defendant’s conduct when the house in which he lived was visited by officers with a warrant to search for intoxicating liquors was such as to warrant an inference that the liquors found secreted in the building were kept by him for unlawful sale. When they visited the attic rooms and were about to search the room near the place where the liquors were subsequently found, he said at first that he had no key that would unlock the door, but soon afterwards he took a key from *544his pocket and unlocked it. The room contained a trunk which was admitted to be his. There was testimony that he said…
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