Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1860

Commonwealth v. Higgins

Commonwealth v. Higgins
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided September 15, 1860 · Metcalf
82 Mass. 19

Commonwealth v. Higgins

Opinion of the Court

Metcalf, J.

1. The testimony was rightly admitted. Commonwealth v. Burnham, 14 Gray, 101.

2. The jury were correctly instructed that the defendant violated the statute on which the indictment was founded, by keeping, maintaining and using the saloon, for a single day only, for the illegal sale of liquor. Wells v. Commonwealth, 12 Gray, 326.

Exceptions overruled.

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