140 Mass. 292
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 2, 1885
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1885-11-02
Complaint, in two counts, for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement in Buckland, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, on May 1, 1883, and on divers other days and times between that day and May 31, 1884.
Relies on Commonwealth v. Rogers
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1885-11-02
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1993
10 state decisions
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¶11. It is too clear to call for any discussion, that the defendant’s ignorance of the law is no defence, and that the evidence offered for the purpose of proving such ignorance was' rightly rejected.
¶22. The rulings upon the question whether the defendant kept a public bar were in accordance with the decision in Commonwealth v. Rogers, 135 Mass. 536; and were sufficiently favorable to the defendant.
¶3Exceptions overruled.