Commonwealth v. Matthews
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment in Plymouth County, for keeping and maintaining at Brockton in that county a common nuisance, namely, a tenement used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors. At the trial .in "the Superior Court, before Braley, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
At the trial there was no evidence tending to show the keeping of any tenement by the defendant in Brockton; but there was evidence tending to show the keeping of a tenement by him, for the illegal purposes alleged, in Easton, in the county of Bristol, but within one hundred rods *174of the boundary line between said counties. The defendant excepted to the admission of the evidence, and also to the refusal of the court to instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty, by reason of a variance; and the case comes before us on these exceptions, the defendant having been found guilty.
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