Commonwealth v. Stoler

The only question raised by this bill of exceptians is, whether certain certificates purporting to be made by the assistant analyst of the department of public health were properly admitted in evidence to show the alcoholic content of liquor alleged to have been kept unlawfully and exposed for sale by the defendant with intent unlawfully to sell it.

There was evidence that a police officer, one Conroy, seized liquor on the defendant’s premises and delivered it to the sergeant, Curran, in charge of the liquor squad of his station; that Curran on the same day transmitted samples of the liquid to…