Commonwealth v. McNeese

This is a complaint for unlawfully exposing and keeping for sale intoxicating liquors. It comes before us on exceptions to the refusal of the judge of the Superior Court to rule that there was no sufficient evidence to warrant a conviction. The evidence for the government was as follows. The defendant had licenses of the first and fourth classes, and kept *232a bar. On the day alleged, Sunday, August 30, 1891, at about seven o’clock in the morning, two officers were admitted and entered at the front of the defendant’s premises. At the same time another, in citizen’s dress, climbed the fence in…