Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1895

Commonwealth v. Green

Commonwealth v. Green
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided February 27, 1895 · Barker
163 Mass. 103; 39 N.E. 775; 1895 Mass. LEXIS 47

Commonwealth v. Green

Opinion of the Court

Barker, J.

It is perfectly well settled that “ guilty knowledge that one is acting in violation of law is not essential to the offence of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors.” Commonwealth v. Uhrig, 138 Mass. 492, 493. Commonwealth v. Julius, 143 Mass. 132, 134. And in Commonwealth v. Stevens, 153 Mass. 421, 425, the logical deduction was stated, in dealing with the case of a master’s liability for an unwitting violation of the law by a servant, that “ the servant himself is no doubt responsible, because he has made a sale, however innocently, which the law forbade him to make.”

Exceptions overruled.

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