Commonwealth v. Canny
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, for unlawfully exposing and keeping for sale intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth, on March 25, 1892, at Boston. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows.
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Complaint, for unlawfully exposing and keeping for sale intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth, on March 25, 1892, at Boston. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. George E. Saxton, a police officer of the city of Boston, testified substantially as follows: “ I know the defendant; his place of business is 441 and 445 Hanover Street, also has a store 431 and 439 Hanover Street, corner of Salutation Street. I went to the latter place, March 25, 1892, with officer Harris; I had a…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
The evidence was amply sufficient to warrant the jury in finding that the defendant kept intoxicating liquor for sale in violation of the statutes. The only specific exception argued by the counsel for the defendant is to the refusal of the court to rule that, “in considering the evidence,the jury are to presume that the goods in question were kept for legal purposes, unless the government has shown to the contrary.” The court instructed the jury, in effect, that they must be satisfied, beyond a reasonable doubt, on the evidence, that the liquor was kept by the defendant with the intent to…
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