58 N.H. 77
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided March 5, 1877
Supreme Court of New Hampshire · decided 1877-03-05
Indictment, for keeping spirituous liquor for sale. Officers who had searched the defendant’s house, testified that they found in it a counter like a bar, a jug of whiskey, two jugs of gin, a barrel of ale on draught, a pitcher and two pails containing ale, and two tumblers with the froth of ale fresh upon them; and that the defendant, who was sitting with two other men near the bar at the time of the search, said to the officers, — “You’ve catehed me fair.” The defendant…
Relies on State v. Lapage
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Decided 1877-03-05
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1923
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¶1 The evidence, tending to show that the defendant kept the fermented liquor for sale in his house, was competent on the question whether the spirituous liquor, which he kept there at the same time, was kept for sale. State v. LaPage, 57 N. H. 245, 287,301, 305.
¶2 Exception overruled.