108 Mass. 483
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 15, 1871
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1871-11-15
Indictment of William Woolford and his wife, on the Gen. Sts. c. 87, §§ 6, 7, for keeping in Wrentham on December 1,1869, and divers other days and times between that day and the first Monday of September 1870, a tenement used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors.
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Decided 1871-11-15
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¶1By the St. of 1866, e. 280, § 3, the offence alleged in the indictment was punishable by a fine' of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, and imprisonment in the house of correction not less than three nor more than twelve months. It was therefore within the jurisdiction of the superior court, and the trial justice had no jurisdiction of it, but could only bind the defendant over for trial in the superior court. Gen. Sts. e. 114, § 6 ; c. 120, §§ 37, 45.
¶2Judgment affirmed.