Case ID: mass_151/html/0063-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "C. Allen, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth vs. Luke Nally.
    Middlesex.
    January 27, 1890.
    February 25, 1890.
    Present: Field, D evens, W. Allen, C. Allen, & Knowlton, JJ.
    
      Intoxicating Liquors — Common Nuisance — Evidence.
    
    At the trial of an indictment on the Pub. Sts. c. 101, §§ 6, 7, for keeping a common nuisance, it appeared that the defendant’s tenement was the southerly half of a house with a front and a rear entrance, the other half being divided into two tenements with like entrances; that the defendant was, with his son, in his own tenement just before it was searched, and that just afterwards the son was seen in the front door of the front tenement in the northerly part of the house. Evidence was then offered, that immediately afterwards the son was seen to throw two bottles of lager beer from a window of the rear tenement in the northerly half of the house. Held, that the evidence was competent.
   C. Allen, J.

This is au indictment for keeping a liquor nuisance. The defendant’s tenement was the southerly half of a house, and had a front and a rear entrance. The other half of the house was divided into two tenements, and also had a front and a rear entrance. The only question now argued is as to the competency of evidence to show that the defendant’s son was seen to throw two bottles of lager beer from a window of the rear tenement in the northerly half of the house, which was not occupied by the defendant. There was evidence tending to show that the defendant was in his own tenement with his son just before the officers began their search; that one of the officers saw the son in the front door of the front tenement in the other part of the house at a time which we infer was just after he had been with the defendant in the defendant’s tenement; and at a time which apparently was immediately after this, he was seen to throw the lager beer from the rear window. The jury might well find that he had just left his father’s tenement and presence with the lager beer, which he was endeavoring to put out of the way, and might properly connect the defendant with this act.

H. N. Allin, for the defendant.

A. J. Waterman, Attorney General, ¿- H. A. Wyman, Second Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

.Exceptions overruled.