Commonwealth v. Neylon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, for unlawfully exposing and keeping for sale intoxicating liquors at Leicester, on July 18, and on divers other days and times between that day and August 8,1892. Trial in the Superior Court, before Dewey, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows.
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Indictment, for unlawfully exposing and keeping for sale intoxicating liquors at Leicester, on July 18, and on divers other days and times between that day and August 8,1892. Trial in the Superior Court, before Dewey, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. There was evidence tending to show that the defendant lived on a small place in Leicester on which were a dwelling-house, a barn, and a building the first floor of which was used as a poolroom, and the upper part finished in sleeping-rooms; that officers were at the place four times between the dates alleged in the…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
Though the record title to the premises was not in the defendant, but in his six children, and though one of the defendant’s sons paid the United States internal revenue tax on the business of retail liquor dealer on the premises, there was other evidence tending to show that the defendant had the responsible charge of the premises, and that he lived there and had given directions that the real estate should be taxed to him. There was also some evidence tending to show that he kept intoxicating liquors there with intent to sell the same within the time specified in the indictment; especially…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Commonwealth v. FinnertyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Commonwealth v. HurleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Commonwealth v. CottonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Commonwealth v. KelleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
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