Commonwealth v. Ryan

Indictment on the Pub. Sts. c. 101, § 6, for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement in Barnstable, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, on October 1, 1882, and on divers other days and times between that day and October 8, 1883, “to the great injury and common nuisance of all peaceable citizens of said Commonwealth there residing, inhabiting, and passing, and against the peace of the Commonwealth, and contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided.” In the Superior Court, before the jury were empanelled, the…