Commonwealth v. Oakes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the. Second District Court of Eastern Middlesex against the first named defendant and others for keeping intoxicating liquors for unlawful sale. At the trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Sherman, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty against all the defendants; and the defendants alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
The evidence tended to show that the defendants kept intoxicating liquors for sale in the inn of the defendant Oakes, who was licensed as an innholder, and who had a license of the first class for the sale of intoxicating liquors at his inn. To prove that the liquor was illegally kept by the defendants, the government relied upon evidence which tended to show that it was kept by them to be sold over a public bar maintained by them in the inn. Oakes was a witness for the defendants, and testified in chief to the location, size, and shape of the structure which the government contended…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WaitMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
- Commonwealth v. HartMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Commonwealth v. BurkeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- Commonwealth v. Certain Intoxicating LiquorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
3Cited by4 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SmallwoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. StewartMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. GormanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
- Commonwealth v. BartoliniMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938