Commonwealth v. Welch
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, charging the defendant with keeping and maintaining a liquor nuisance in Cambridge, between August 1, 1892, and February 23, 1893. At the trial, in the Superior Court, before Lilley, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
There was evidence that many men had been seen going into a side door in the ell of the defendant’s house, and that some of them were under the influence of liquor when they came out. From this side door there was a path to a side door in the ell of another house. In this ell was a room locked with a brass padlock, and in the room on February 19, 1893, was a three-gallon jug nearly full of whiskey. A key fitting the padlock was in the defendant’s house. Exceptions were taken to the admission of evidence that on the same day the defendant’s daughter, a girl sixteen or seventeen years old, who…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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