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Commonwealth v. Wallace

Commonwealth v. William Wallace

Commonwealth v. Wallace, 123 Mass. 401 (1877)
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Court
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · State Highest Courts
Decided
November 15, 1877
Judges
Ames
Citations
123 Mass. 4011877 Mass. LEXIS 307
Headnotes
On a complaint for keeping intoxicating liquors for sale in violation of law, evidence that the defendant kept a public bar, provided with tumblers and a dripping pan; that the bar was resorted to at all hours of the day and evening, and at times at very late hours of the night; and that, at the time of his arrest at his place of business, three pint bottles containing intoxicating liquors were found in his pockets, is competent and will authorize a jury in finding him guilty.
Summary
Complaint for unlawfully keeping intoxicating liquors with intent to sell the same. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Rockwell, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions to the admission and sufficiency of certain evidence, the nature of which appears in the opinion.

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Opinion of the Court — Ames

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Ames, J.

There was evidence to the effect that the defendant kept a public bar, provided with tumblers and a dripping pan ; that this bar was resorted to at all hours during the day and evening, and at times at very late hours of the night; and that upon searching the defendant’s person, at the time of his arrest at his place of business, three pint bottles containing intoxicating liquors were found in his pockets. All this evidence was competent and would authorize the jury to convict. Commonwealth v. Hayes, 114 Mass. 282 . Exceptions overruled.

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1899: 118992026peak 1899 · 1

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  1. Emery v. State78 N.W. 145 (Wis. 1899)

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  1. Emery v. State78 N.W. 145 (Wis. 1899)

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Commonwealth v. Hayes, 114 Mass. 282 (1873) 6

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