Commonwealth v. Maddocks
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, received and sworn to in the District Court of Eastern Essex on November 26, 1909, charging the defendant with keeping and maintaining a tenement in Gloucester used by him for the illegal sale and the illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors between May 1 and November 26, 1909. At the trial in the Superior Court before jRaymond, J., it appeared that the defendant was a retail druggist at Gloucester, licensed as a pharmacist and holding a certificate of fitness,…
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Complaint, received and sworn to in the District Court of Eastern Essex on November 26, 1909, charging the defendant with keeping and maintaining a tenement in Gloucester used by him for the illegal sale and the illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors between May 1 and November 26, 1909. At the trial in the Superior Court before jRaymond, J., it appeared that the defendant was a retail druggist at Gloucester, licensed as a pharmacist and holding a certificate of fitness, issued under the statute on the subject, authorizing him to sell intoxicating liquors on physicians’ prescriptions. The…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
1. There was evidence which required the sub-' mission of the case to the jury. They might infer that the coverings discovered in the defendant’s cellar had come from bottles with the same contents as those found in the immediate vicinity which were furnished with similar coverings. The quantity of liquors actually upon his premises, with what might thus be found to have been recently disposed of by him, and the fact which also might be found that on the same day he had made an illegal sale of liquor, warranted the inference that one of the purposes for which he kept his shop was to sell…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SinclairMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Commonwealth v. PattersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- State v. ThornhillSupreme Court of Missouri · 1903
- Commonwealth v. NagleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Commonwealth v. BrownellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
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- Commonwealth v. RichardsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
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