Commonwealth v. Reid
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two complaints. The first complaint, under Pub. Sts. c. 68, § 16, alleged that the defendant, on July 21, 1898, at Boston, “ did go from place to place carrying and exposing for sale certain goods, wares, and merchandise, to wit, ice, without then and there having a license from the Secretary of said x Commonwealth so to do.”
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Two complaints. The first complaint, under Pub. Sts. c. 68, § 16, alleged that the defendant, on July 21, 1898, at Boston, “ did go from place to place carrying and exposing for sale certain goods, wares, and merchandise, to wit, ice, without then and there having a license from the Secretary of said x Commonwealth so to do.” The second complaint, under Rev. Ord. of Boston, of 1890, c. 43, § 35, alleged that the defendant, on July 21, 1898, at Boston, “did sell to the complainant in West Second street, near E street, a certain article to wit: a piece of ice, said complainant being then and…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
In the first of these cases the defendant is complained of for a violation of Pub. Sts. c. 68, § 16, in selling ice in a street in Boston without license from the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The motion to quash was rightly overruled. It is too late to object in the Superior Court that a complaint originally filed in an inferior court is insufficient in form. Pub. Sts. c. 214, § 25. Commonwealth v. Doherty, 116 Mass. 13. Commonwealth v. Donahoe, 130 Mass. 280. The complaint in the case at bar follows the language of Pub. Sts. c. 68, § 16, and describes, certainly with substantial, if not…
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