Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1886

Commonwealth v. Welch

Commonwealth v. Welch
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 21, 1886
142 Mass. 473; 8 N.E. 342; 1886 Mass. LEXIS 352

Commonwealth v. Welch

Opinion of the Court

Br the COURT.

If we assume, in favor of the defendant, that the officer testified that the tumbler which he seized contained intoxicating liquor, his testimony was competent, without producing the liquor, or accounting for its absence. Such testimony is not secondary evidence, within the rule that the best evidence must be produced unless destroyed or otherwise accounted for. Commonwealth v. Blood, 11 Gray, 74. Commonwealth v. Pope, 103 Mass. 440.

Exceptions overruled.

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