Commonwealth v. Lyons

<p>Intoxicating Liquors — Maintaining Nuisance — Evidence.</p> <p>At the trial of a complaint for maintaining a tenement used for the illegal sale and illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, it appeared that the defendant owned the building in question, which was occupied by him as a shop and a dwelling-house, and also the adjoining building, which was let by him to tenants; and that the two buildings were connected by a passageway. There was evidence that, on a certain day, a large number of men were seen from time to time going into the rear of the defendant’s shop; that the defendant on that day went several times from his shop to the door leading into the cellar of the adjoining building, and returned each time appearing to have something which he held in his hand under his jacket, and once he carried something in his hand which appeared to be filled lager beer bottles; and that at another time he returned with a bundle done up in a newspaper. Held, that evidence that, two days later, searching officers found a large quantity of intoxicating liquors in the cellar of the adjoining building, was admissible.</p>