Commonwealth v. Meckel
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint entered on October 5, 1914, in the Superior Court, on appeal from a sentence of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, charging that the defendant on August 23, 1914, that day being the Lord’s day, at Boston did sell one pound of bread to one Nordstrom, the same not being then and there a work of necessity or charity. ■ The defendant was tried before Keating, J., upon an agreed statement of facts as follows: On Sunday, August 23, 1914, at 11 A. M. the defendant…
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Complaint entered on October 5, 1914, in the Superior Court, on appeal from a sentence of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, charging that the defendant on August 23, 1914, that day being the Lord’s day, at Boston did sell one pound of bread to one Nordstrom, the same not being then and there a work of necessity or charity. ■ The defendant was tried before Keating, J., upon an agreed statement of facts as follows: On Sunday, August 23, 1914, at 11 A. M. the defendant was engaged in the business of a common victualler and as such common victualler sold a loaf of bread to Nordstrom, the…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The defendant was found guilty of doing business on the Lord’s day, by selling and delivering a loaf of bread to the complainant on that day, at her shop, to be carried away from the premises. It is agreed that this sale was not a work of necessity or charity. R. L. c. 98, §§ 2, 3.
The defendant relies on the fact that, being licensed as a com*72mon victualler under R. L. c. 102, §§ 1-22, she had the right to sell food on the Lord’s day, even though the food was not to be eaten upon the premises, but was sold to be carried away.
The words "common victualler,” in Massachusetts, by long usage, have…
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