164 Mass. 547
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 26, 1895
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1895-11-26
Complaint to the Second District Court of Eastern Middle-sex, chai’ging that the defendant, on the first day of June, 1894, and “ on divers other days and times between that day and the day of making this complaint [which was the 5th of the following December], at Waltham, in said county of Middlesex, and within the judicial district of said court, unlawfully did expose and keep for sale intoxicating liquor with intent unlawfully to sell the same in this Commonwealth, the…
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently March 1923
1 district ·
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
““The complaint charges an offense committed during a single period of time, from the day first named to the day of making the complaint.””
quoted by 1 later decision, including United States v. Traveller
Relies on Commonwealth v. Chisholm · Commonwealth v. Sheehan · Commonwealth v. Dunn
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1895-11-26
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¶1The complaint charges an offence committed during a single period of time, from the day first named to the day of making the complaint. Commonwealth v. Sheehan, 143 Mass. 468. Commonwealth v. Dunn, 111 Mass. 426. Commonwealth v. Hoye, 9 Gray, 292. The negation of authority “ then *549and there ” applies to the whole period. Commonwealth v. McKenney, 14 Gray, 1. Commonwealth v. Boyle, 14 Gray, 3. Commonwealth v. Chisholm, 103 Mass. 213.
¶2Exceptions overruled«,