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140 Mass. 370

Commonwealth v. McCullow

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided January 4, 1886

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1886-01-04

Complaint to the Second District Court of Eastern Middle-sex, for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement in Waltham, used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, on November 1, 1883, and on divers other days and times between that day and March 17, 1884.

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Decided 1886-01-04

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Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1901

7 state decisions

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By the Court.

¶1The fact that intoxicating liquors were found in the tenement of the defendant’s mother, under the circumstances stated in the bill of exceptions, was competent. A large quantity was found in a room adjoining the tenement of the defendant, which had a door communicating with his tenement. *372The facts that a large quantity was found, that the mother kept house by herself, and would not be likely to have so large a supply for her own use, that the defendant had access to the room, joined with the fact that no evidence was offered to show that the liquors belonged to any other person, tended to show that the defendant kept these liquors for the purpose of supplying the bar in his saloon. The weight of the evidence was for the jury.

¶2Exceptions overruled.

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