Commonwealth v. Mason

<p>A complaint on the St. of 1869, c. 415, charged the keeping of intoxicating liquor* on a day certain with the intent to sell the same in violation of law. The evidence for the government related to certain acts of the defendant in a saloon and that intoxicating liquors were kept there on the day named in the complaint. The defendant testified that he had sold out his interest in the business prior to said day, and had had nothing to do with it since. The government then introduced evidence of the defendant's selling liquor in the saloon on a day subsequent to that alleged, for the sole purpose of affecting the credibility of the defendant as a witness. Held, that the evidence was rightly admitted for this purpose.</p>