Commonwealth v. Dressel

Complaint to a trial justice for the illegal keeping of intoxicating liquor on March 28, 1872. The defendant was convicted and appealed. At the trial on appeal in the Superior Court, before Bewey, J., the certified copy of the complaint sent by the trial justice alleged the keeping of the liquor on March 28,1870. The jury returned a verdict of guilty; the trial justice ther came in and desired to amend his copy of the record by changing 1870 into 1872 ; and the amendment was allowed against the objection of the defendant, who alleged exceptions.