¶1Keeping a tenement for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors, and thereby making the tenement a nuisance, is a different offence from keeping such liquors for sale contrary to law, and a conviction of the offence last mentioned may take place, and proof of the same keeping may furnish proof of the nuisance. There is no plea in this case of autrefois convict; and if there were, it could not avail. See the cases cited by the Attorney General. Hxceptions overruled.
110 Mass. 502
Commonwealth v. McShane
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 15, 1872
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1872-11-15
Indictment on the Gen. Sts. c. 87, §§ 6, 7, for keeping and maintaining a tenement in Salem used by the defendant for the illegal keeping and sale of intoxicating liquors.
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Decided 1872-11-15
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