Commonwealth v. Kennedy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment on the Gen. Sts. o. 87, §§ 6, 7, for keeping and maintaining at Attleborough on January 1,1871, and divers other days and times between that day and June 14, 1871, a tenement used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors. At the trial in the superior court, before Wilkinson, J., the material evidence for the Commonwealth was given by Charles J. White and James W. Riley.
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Indictment on the Gen. Sts. o. 87, §§ 6, 7, for keeping and maintaining at Attleborough on January 1,1871, and divers other days and times between that day and June 14, 1871, a tenement used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors. At the trial in the superior court, before Wilkinson, J., the material evidence for the Commonwealth was given by Charles J. White and James W. Riley. White testified “ that he had known the defendant for twelve years; that he had bought intoxicating liquors of her in her house at Blaneyville in Attleborough a number of times, and paid ten…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
That the evidence introduced at the trial was sufficient to prove that the defendant kept or maintained a tenement used for the sale and keeping of intoxicating liquors is too plain to be discussed. Commonwealth v. Taylor, 14 Gray, 26.
It is argued that the liquors which were kept and sold on the premises may have been ale, porter, strong beer or lager beer; and that the burden of proving that such liquors could not be lawfully sold in Attleborough was upon the Commonwealth.
By the St. of 1869, e. 415, as amended by the Sts. of 1870, co. 389, 390, sales of ale, porter, strong beer or lager beer…
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