Commonwealth v. Certain Intoxicating Liquors
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint on the Pub. Sts. c. 100, § 80, to James T. Joslin, a trial justice for the county of Middlesex, alleging that, on August 29, 1887, certain intoxicating liquors were “ kept and deposited by Zephrin Lucia of said Hudson, in a certain hotel and barn situate on the north side of Main Street, in Hudson Centre, known as the Valley House and barn in the rear thereof, next east of the Bakery Building, occupied in part by Geo.
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Complaint on the Pub. Sts. c. 100, § 80, to James T. Joslin, a trial justice for the county of Middlesex, alleging that, on August 29, 1887, certain intoxicating liquors were “ kept and deposited by Zephrin Lucia of said Hudson, in a certain hotel and barn situate on the north side of Main Street, in Hudson Centre, known as the Valley House and barn in the rear thereof, next east of the Bakery Building, occupied in part by Geo. W. Davis, in said Hudson, and occupied by said Zephrin Lucia as a hotel and barn, having a place of common resort kept therein,” for sale contrary to law. The warrant…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The questions of law in this case arise upon the claimant’s motion to quash. It is contended that in the complaint, and also in the warrant, the description of the buildings or place wherein the intoxicating liquor was alleged to be kept was fatally defective.
By the Pub. Sts. c. 100, § 32, it is provided that the complaint and warrant in cases of this kind shall “ particularly designate so as to identify the building, structure, and place to be searched.” The language of the complaint, properly construed, called for a hotel and barn in the town of Hudson, occupied by Zephrin Lucia, known as…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Commonwealth v. Certain Intoxicating LiquorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Commonwealth v. Certain Intoxicating LiquorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Commonwealth v. Intoxicating LiquorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
- Commonwealth v. Certain Intoxicating LiquorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
- Commonwealth v. Certain Intoxicating LiquorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
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- Rose v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1909