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93 Mass. 241

Commonwealth v. Greenen

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 15, 1865

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1865-10-15

Complaint charging that the defendant “ on the first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and from that day to the day of the date of this complaint, did keep and maintain a certain tenement then and there used for the illegal keeping and sale of intoxicating liquors.” The date and jurat were in the same form as in the preceding case.

Decided 1865-10-15

Gray, J.

¶1The allegation of time warranted the introduction of evidence up to the date of the complaint, for the reasons stated in the case just decided of Commonwealth v. Walton, ante, 238.

¶2The evidence of repeated sales of intoxicating liquors by the defendant in a cellar fitted up as a bar room was sufficient evidence to be submitted to the jury that the room was kept by him for the illegal keeping of intoxicating liquors, and was submitted to them under proper instructions.

¶3Exceptions overruled.

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