State v. Fezzette
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by defendant. Search and seizure process under the provisions of Revised Statutes, chapter 29, section 49, based on a complaint addressed to'the Bangor Municipal Court and a warrant issued thereon by said court.
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On exceptions by defendant. Search and seizure process under the provisions of Revised Statutes, chapter 29, section 49, based on a complaint addressed to'the Bangor Municipal Court and a warrant issued thereon by said court. The complaint, omitting formal parts, is as follows : "Harry A. Friend of Etna in said County, competent to be a witness in civil suits, on the twenty-fifth day of June, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and six in behalf of said State, on oath, complains that he believes that on the twenty-fifth day of June, in said year, at said Bangor, intoxicating liquors were, and…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
The defendant was tried and convicted on a search and seizure process issued under the provisions of section 49, chapter 29 of the Revised Statutes relating to the unlawful keeping or depositing of intoxicating liquors. After conviction, he filed *470this motion in arrest of judgment, which was overruled, and exceptions were taken.
The statute in question provides that "if any person competent to be a witness in civil suits, makes sworn complaint before any judge of a municipal or police court or trial justice, that he believes that intoxicating liquors are unlawfully kept or deposited in any…
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