Commonwealth v. Mead
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint for keeping, on June 7, 1884, at Danvers, intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
There was evidence tending to show that the house in which the defendant lived was a place of common resort for persons who did not live there; that persons under the influence of liquor were seen to come from the house, especially on Sundays; that, at the time the officers searched the premises, a large number of men were found therein, one of whom was intoxicated; that there were signs of recent drinking of beer in the house; and that there was found a pile of sawdust wet with beer, indicating that beer had been voluntarily spilled upon it. There was also evidence, which was…
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