¶1The effect of the prayer for instructions was that a jury ought not to convict a party on circumstantial evidence. Any such direction to the jury would have been contrary to elementary principles. There is nothing in the nature of a sale to require any different evidence in kind or degree to establish the fact from that which is necessary or sufficient to prove any other fact. Exceptions overruled.
97 Mass. 336
Commonwealth v. Cotter
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 15, 1867
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1867-10-15
Indictment for being a common seller of intoxicating liquors. The case was tried in the superior court, before Wilkinson, J., and came before this court on a bill of exceptions substantially as follows: “ The government produced two witnesses who testified to certain sales of intoxicating liquors.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently November 1871
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Decided 1867-10-15
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