80 Mass. 101
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 15, 1859
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1859-10-15
<p>Upon the trial of an indictment for being a common seller of intoxicating liquors, the Commonwealth, after introducing testimony of sales in a particular house, may ask the witness whether he had known of the defendant’s living in any other house during the time in question.</p> <p>Upon the trial of an indictment for being a common seller of intoxicating liquors, evidence that bottles had been seen in a room in the defendant’s house, containing a bar, and called the bar-room, is competent.</p> <p>Upon the trial of an indictment for being a common seller of intoxicating liquors, evidence that persons had drank liquor in the defendant’s house, and that the defendant had been seen in all the lower rooms, is competent.</p>
Decided 1859-10-15
¶1The evidence objected to, in each of these cases, was relevant to the issue; and although of itself it might not prove any very important fact, it was nevertheless competent as forming links in the chain of testimony which might be material in support of the charge laid in the indictment.
¶2 Exceptions overruled.