Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1856

Commonwealth v. Barnard

Commonwealth v. Barnard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided September 15, 1856 · Metcalf
72 Mass. 488

Commonwealth v. Barnard

Opinion of the Court

Metcalf, J.

It does not appear in this complaint that West Brookfield, the place where the defendant is charged with having sold intoxicating liquor, is either a town, or a place within the county of Worcester. It therefore does not appear that any magistrate in this county, or any court held in this county, has jurisdiction of the offence set forth in the complaint. Hence the cases of Commonwealth v. Springfield, 7 Mass. 9, and Commonwealth v. Cummings, ante, 487, are quite distinguishable from this. Judgment arrested.

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