¶1The indictment duly charging the commission of an offence at a time before it was found, and the date of its presentment appearing by the record, the error in the caption was immaterial. Commonwealth v. Hines, 101 Mass. 33. Commonwealth v. Smith, 108 Mass. 486. Exceptions overruled.
116 Mass. 339
Commonwealth v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 5, 1874
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1874-11-05
Indictment, duly averring that the defendant at Lynn on October 1, 1873, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of the finding of the indictment, kept and maintained a tenement used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors.
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Decided 1874-11-05
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