State v. Bass
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On agreed statement. Complaint to the Bangor Municipal Court in the City of Bangor, under the provisions of section 45 of chapter 29 of the Revised Statutes.
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On agreed statement. Complaint to the Bangor Municipal Court in the City of Bangor, under the provisions of section 45 of chapter 29 of the Revised Statutes. The substance of the complaint, omitting the “liquor advertisement ” complained of, is as follows: “Henry N. Pringle of Waterville in the County of Kennebec on the twenty-eighth day of April A. D. one thousand nine hundred and five in behalf of said State, on oath, complains that Joseph P. Bass, M. Robert Harrigan and Frederick H. Strickland, all of Bangor, in the County of Penobscot, laborers, on the twenty-second day of April, A. D.…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
This is a complaint against the defendants for knowingly publishing in the Bangor Daily Commercial, a “notice of the sale and keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors.” It is based on section 45 of chapter 29 of the Revised Statutes. The defendants waived a hearing in the Municipal Court, and being adjudged guilty, appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court. The case comes to the Law Court on an agreed statement of facts.
It is alleged in the complaint that the defendants, on the 22nd day of April 1905, “being then and there the owners and publishers of a newspaper called the Bangor Daily…
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