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63 Me. 223

State v. McCafferty

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 1, 1874

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1874-07-01

On exceptions to the ruling of the justice of the superior court. Search and seizure process upon which certain liquors were returned as taken, and McCafferty arrested. It was brought before the superior court by appeal from the municipal court of Portland.

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Decided 1874-07-01

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Dickerson, J.

¶1The first requested instruction assumes that hop beer is not intoxicating, a fact to be found by the jury. The points raised in the second and third requested instructions are not open to the respondent, since the case shows that “the officer served the warrant and made return thereon of the seizure, and arrested the defendant.”

¶2The leave granted to the jury by the court to take to their room a bottle of the liquor introduced in evidence, notasthe liquor seized, but as liquor manufactured and sold by the same person under the same name as the liquor seized, was unobjectionable, coupled with the instruction to the jury not to consider the qualities of such liquor unless they should find from the evidence in the case, that it was the same kind as that seized.

¶3Exceptions overruled.

Appleton O. J., Walton, Barrows, Virgin and Peters, JJ., concurred.
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