Commonwealth v. Goodall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Second District Court of Bristol, for keep, ing a disorderly house from June 1 to December 18,1894, at Fall River. Trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Sheldon, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows.
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Complaint to the Second District Court of Bristol, for keep, ing a disorderly house from June 1 to December 18,1894, at Fall River. Trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Sheldon, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The government offered evidence tending to prove that, at about eleven o’clock on the night of December 15,1894, a squad of police of Fall River went to the house kept by the defendant, and demanded admission, notifying her at the same time that they had a search-warrant for the premises, that they found the outer doors secured by chains on the…
1Opinion of the CourtLathbop, J.
The offence charged in the complaint is a common law offence. The defendant concedes in her brief “ that upon all the evidence, direct and circumstantial, the jury might have been warranted in returning a verdict of guilty ”; but contends that the latter part of the instruction requested should have been given, and that the court should have instructed the jury that merely resorting to the house, without misconduct in it, of women whose reputation for chastity was bad was not sufficient to warrant a conviction.
We are of opinion that the instructions given were sufficient, and that the…
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