State v. Lang
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Indictments under R. S., c. 17, § 1, which provides that, “all places used as houses of ill fame, resorted to for lewdness or gambling, for the illegal sale or keeping of intoxicating liquors, are common nuisances,” alleging that the respondent on the twelfth day of October, 1873, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of the finding of this indictment, at Portland, &c., did knowingly and unlawfully keep and maintain a certain shop,…
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On exceptions. Indictments under R. S., c. 17, § 1, which provides that, “all places used as houses of ill fame, resorted to for lewdness or gambling, for the illegal sale or keeping of intoxicating liquors, are common nuisances,” alleging that the respondent on the twelfth day of October, 1873, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of the finding of this indictment, at Portland, &c., did knowingly and unlawfully keep and maintain a certain shop, there situate, then and on said other days and times, there by the respondent kept and used for the illegal sale, and for…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
These cases were presented together in argument, under exceptions taken to the sufficiency of the indictment and to • the rulings at the trial.
The counsel for the State relies upon the case of State v. Wing, *21732 Maine, 581, as deciding that the motions in arrest are a waiver of any exceptions taken at the trial. The point established there was, that the motion in arrest was premature, while exceptions raised at the trial were pending. The practice then was to file such motion after the exceptions were disposed of. But the rules of this court (rule 19, 37 Maine, 574,) now require that a motion in…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. McAfeeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Commonwealth v. AustinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Commonwealth v. FinneganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
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