State v. McDermott

The respondent was convicted in the Franklin municipal court of the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor. The evidence showed that the alleged sale was made at the respondent’s dwelling house. The only exception insisted upon is the one saved when the court refused to charge that the jury should acquit the respondent unless it found that the house had become a place of public resort or that the purchaser was an habitual drunkard.

As now written, the liquor law, No. 197, Acts of 1935, provides that one shall not “furnish or sell, or expose or keep with intent to sell” intoxicating liquor except…