80 Mass. 398
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 15, 1860
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1860-01-15
Complaint on St. 1855, c. 215, § 15, for an unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor. In the copies certified by the magistrate, and produced at the trial in the superior court in Plymouth at October term 1859, the complaint had no signature.
Decided 1860-01-15
¶1No time is prescribed by the Rev. Sts. c. 138, § 2, within which the certified copies of the proceedings before the magistrate shall be furnished. It is sufficient if they *399are produced before i the defendant is called upon to plead. In this case accurate copies were produced, to which the defendant pleaded anew. See Commonwealth v. Doty, 2 Met. 18.
¶2Exceptions overruled.