Commonwealth v. Dale

The defendants on separate complaints were convicted of being drunk by the voluntary use of intoxicating liquor, and the defendant Dale was also convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor.

The mother of the defendant Dale testified without objection, in reply to a question by the district attorney, that her daughter had never taken a drop of liquor in her life. ■ The defendant Dale thereafter took the stand and testified in *537cross-examination that she was not a drinking woman, and then, subject to the defendant’s exception, in answer to a question by…