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148 Mass. 15

Commonwealth v. Gillon

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided November 27, 1888

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1888-11-27

Complaint to the “ Municipal Court of the Dorchester district of the city of Boston holden at said district for the transaction of criminal business within the county of Suffolk,” alleging that the defendant, on February 12, 1888, “ at Boston aforesaid and within the judicial district of said court, unlawfully did expose and keep for sale intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth, the said Gillon not having then and there any…

Relies on Commonwealth v. Locke · Commonwealth v. McHugh

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Decided 1888-11-27

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Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1923

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Field, J.

¶1The only alleged defect in the complaint which could be called substantial, if it were a defect, is that there is no allegation “ of any intent illegally to sell said intoxicating liquors within the Dorchester district,” but the allegation is of an “intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth.” The unlawful keeping of intoxicating liquors for sale is equally an offence, whether the intent is unlawfully to sell them at the place where they are kept, or at other places in the Commonwealth.

¶2The testimony of Perry, that he saw in the kitchen “ seven men, five sitting around a table and two standing up,” and “the wife of the defendant having two bottles of what he called lager beer under her apron, and that he took one from her, and the other she broke over the stove,” was competent. Commonwealth v. Locke, 145 Mass. 401. Commonwealth v. McHugh, 147 Mass. 401. Commonwealth v. Downey, ante, p. 14.

¶3Exceptions overruled.

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