117 Mass. 142
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 13, 1875
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1875-02-13
Indictment on the Gen. Sts. c. 84, § 1, for keeping open a shop on the Lord’s day. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Lord, J., the evidence tended to prove that the defendant kept his shop open for traffic on November 15, 1874, being the Lord’s day; and that it was a liquor shop and bar room.
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Decided 1875-02-13
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1942
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¶1The jury, under the instructions given them at the trial, must have found that the defendant kept a liquor shop and bar room open for ordinary traffic with the public indiscriminately on the Lord’s day. This was clearly a violation of the Gen. Sts. o. 84, § 1, upon which the indictment is based.
¶2Exceptions overruled.