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136 Mass. 431

Commonwealth v. Salmon

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided January 9, 1884

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1884-01-09

<p>A license to a common victualler, to sell intoxicating liquors to be drunk on the premises, is no defence to a complaint for exposing and keeping for sale intoxicating liquors with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth, if the licensee keeps a public bar, or maintains a partition which interferes with a view of the interior of the premises, in violation of the Pub. Sts. c. 100, § 9, cl. 5, and § 12; and of the St. of 1882, c. 259, § 1.</p> <p>No exception lies to the admission of evidence, although, standing by itself, it does not appear to have been admissible, if the bill of exceptions fails to disclose sufficiently the state of the evidence, at the time the evidence objected to was admitted, to show that it was improperly admitted.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently September 1914

2 state decisions

Relies on Jones v. Smith

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Decided 1884-01-09

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Colburn, J.

¶1The license held by the defendant was upon the condition that he should not keep a public bar, Pub. Sts. c. 100, § 9, cl. 5; and, by the provisions of § 12 of the same chapter, as amended by the St. of 1882, c. 259, § 1, if he maintained a partition which interfered with a view of the interior of the licensed premises, this of itself made the license void. If the evidence disclosed the fact that, in exposing and keeping intoxicating liquors for sale, the defendant kept a public bar, or maintained such a partition, his license would be no justification of such exposing and keeping for sale; and the instructions to the jury were right.

¶2It does not appear by the exceptions for what purpose the evidence objected to was admitted. Standing by itself, it does not appear to have been admissible; but in connection with other evidence, or in contradiction of other evidence, it may have been admissible. The defendant has not in his exceptions disclosed sufficiently the state of the evidence in the case, at the time the evidence objected to was admitted, to enable us to say that it was improperly admitted. Jones v. Smith, 121 Mass. 15.

¶3 Exceptions overruled.

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