Commonwealth v. Shea
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint for unlawfully keeping for sale intoxicating liquors, -with intent unlawfully to sell the same, on October 2, 1892, at Warren. At the trial, in the Superior Court, before Maynard, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in October, 1893, and after-wards was submitted on the briefs to all the judges.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
The main question is whether there is any sufficient evidence that the defendant kept three cases of lager beer, which were found by officers on October 2, 1892, in a vacant tenement belonging to the defendant’s mother. • This tenement was connected by a frequently travelled path, from two to three hundred yards long, with a house inhabited by the defendant and his mother. In the latter house was a saloon and bar, in which there was evidence that on August 25, 1892, the defendant sold lager beer on demand. It also appeared that on two occasions two or three men under the influence of liquor…
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- Commonwealth v. KelleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
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