Commonwealth v. Certain Intoxicating Liquors
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint under Gen Sts. c. 86 for a search warrant for cerlain intoxicating liquors alleged to be unlawfully kept and deposited in “ a certain building situate in Wendell, at Wendell Depot so called, kept as a store by William Putnam.”
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Complaint under Gen Sts. c. 86 for a search warrant for cerlain intoxicating liquors alleged to be unlawfully kept and deposited in “ a certain building situate in Wendell, at Wendell Depot so called, kept as a store by William Putnam.” This complaint was addressed to a trial justice within and for the county of Franklin, and described the liquors to be searched for as certain quantities of rum, gin, brandy, whiskey, strong beer, ale and wine, “ being about and not exceeding five hundred gallons ” each. The warrant issued thereon was addressed to the constable of the Commonwealth or either of…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, J.
No arguments or authorities are presented on behalf of the claimant, and on looking into the alleged grounds of his motion to dismiss the complaint, we cannot see that any of them are tenable. Some of them are met by the decisions referred to in the brief of the attorney general, and by Commonwealth v. Intoxicating Liquors, ante, 63, and others by the plain provisions of the statutes. Exceptions overruled.
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