Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1859

Commonwealth v. Langley

Commonwealth v. Langley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 15, 1859 · Metcalf
80 Mass. 21

Commonwealth v. Langley

Opinion of the Court

Metcalf, J.

The indictment alleged the time of keeping and maintaining the nuisance with sufficient certainty, and in a form which warranted the admission of evidence of such keeping during all the time from the 1st of April 1858 to the day when the indictment was found, as shown by the certificate of the clerk indorsed thereon. Commonwealth v. Wood, 4 Gray, 11. The omission of the words “ then and there ” in the clause describing the uses of the tenement so kept, is .of no importance. Commonwealth v. Barker, 12 Cush. 186. Commonwealth v. Bugbee, 4 Gray, 206. Commonwealth v. Sullivan, 6 Gray, 477.

Exceptions overruled.

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