Commonwealth v. Bezko

The defendant was tried on two complaints, one for keeping intoxicating liquors with intent to sell contrary to law, the other for maintaining a liquor nuisance. There was evidence that the defendant with his family lived on a small farm in Hatfield, and raised tobacco and *437onions. When the police officers searched the defendant’s house and barn by virtue of a search warrant neither the defendant nor his family was on the premises. In the cellar of the house the officers seized a case of quart bottles of beer and another bottle half filled. The beer was shown by analysis to contain three and…