¶1The instructions given at the trial were correct. The judgment in Commonwealth v. Atkins, 136 Mass. 160, is decisive of this case.
¶2Exceptions overruled.
140 Mass. 372
Commonwealth v. Welch
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 4, 1886
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1886-01-04
Complaint to the Police Court of Newton, alleging that the defendant, on April 18, 1885, at Newton, unlawfully exposed and kept for sale intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth. Trial in the Superior Court, before Q-ardner, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: There was no evidence that the defendant exposed said liquors, but there was evidence tending to show that she kept them with intent to sell them.
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Decided 1886-01-04
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