State v. Bennet
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions by defendants. Appeals by the defendants from the municipal court of Portland to the Superior court upon complaints and warrants against them under R. S., c. 27, §§40 and 43, for having intoxicating liquors in their possession with the intent to sell the same in violation of law. The defendants in each case demurred to the complaints. The demurrers were overruled by the presiding justice and the defendants excepted. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
These are complaints based on sections 40 and 43 of cbap. 27 of the revised statutes, authorizing the process for “search and seizure.” The cases come to this court on exceptions to the overruling of the defendants, demurrers to the complaints. The complaint in each case is, that intoxicating liquors were kept and deposited by the defendants “in the dwelling-house and inn being known as the Jefferson Hotel and its appurtenances, situated on the northerly side of Congress street in said Portland and numbered nine hundred and forty-one on said street and occupied by said Lessard and Sullivan, a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. HindsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
3Cited by1 opinion
- Durstin v. DodgeSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1941