Commonwealth v. Cobb
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for keeping and maintaining a disorderly house. Trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions in substance as follows ; At the close of the evidence, the defendant requested the judge to instruct the jury as follows : “ First.
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Indictment for keeping and maintaining a disorderly house. Trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions in substance as follows ; At the close of the evidence, the defendant requested the judge to instruct the jury as follows : “ First. That the issue for the jury is not whether a nuisance was kept by the defendant during any portion of the time alleged in the indictment; but the question is, on the evidence, did the defendant, during the time, or some substantial period of the time alleged in the indictment, keep a noisy and disorderly house, at number 41…
1Opinion of the CourtMoeton, J.
The instructions given stated accurately all the elements necessary to constitute the offence charged, and were correct. They embraced substantially, though in different language, all the material instructions requested by the defendant, and he has no ground of exception. JExeeptions overruled.
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