¶1Proof that the defendant kept and maintained the tenement for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors, during any part of the time named in the indictment, warranted a conviction. The instructions given were correct. Commonwealth v. Wood, 4 Gray, 11. Wells v. Commonwealth, 12 Gray, 326. Commonwealth v. Higgins, 16 Gray, 19. Commonwealth v. Gallagher, 1 Allen. 592. Commonwealth v. Cogan, 107 Mass. 212. Exceptions overruled.
115 Mass. 141
Commonwealth v. Mitchell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 16, 1874
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1874-06-16
Indictment.under the Gen. Sts. c. 87, §§ 6, 7, charging the defendant with keeping a common nuisance, to wit, a tenement in the city of Boston, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors, on the sixth day of January, 1874, and for six months next preceding said sixth day of January.
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1909
3 state decisions
Relies on Commonwealth v. Cogan
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1874-06-16
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