Commonwealth v. Connors
| Decision Date | 22 October 1874 |
| Citation | 116 Mass. 35 |
| Parties | Commonwealth v. Michael Connors. Same v. Same |
| Court | United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court |
Hampshire. The first case was an indictment found at the June session of the grand jury, 1873, under the Gen. Sts. c. 87 § 7, for keeping a common nuisance, to wit, a tenement for the illegal keeping and sale of intoxicating liquor, on July 1, 1872, and on divers other days between that day and May 1, 1873.
At the trial in the Superior Court, before Dewey, J., after evidence had been introduced concerning the character of the defendant's place on July 2, 1872, the presiding judge allowed evidence to be introduced, against the defendant's objection, as to what was found at the defendant's place on other days between said July 2, and May 1, 1873.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the defendant alleged exceptions.
The second case was an indictment under the Gen. Sts. c. 87 § 7, for keeping a common nuisance, to wit, a tenement for the illegal keeping and sale of intoxicating liquor on May 1, 1873, and on divers other days between that day and June 12, 1873.
At the trial in the Superior Court, before Dewey, J., the defendant filed a plea that he had been found guilty on an indictment found against him at the same session of the grand jury, for keeping a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement for the illegal keeping and sale of intoxicating liquor from July 1 1872, to May 1, 1873, and that the tenement was the same set out in this indictment.
A demurrer to this plea was sustained; the defendant was required to answer over, and pleaded not guilty. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the defendant alleged exceptions.
Exceptions overruled.
D. W. Bond, for the defendant. The grand jury, by returning the two indictments, find that the defendant had kept a tenement as a nuisance continuously from July 1, 1872, to the time of the finding of the two indictments. The defendant was not guilty of as many different offences as there were days during this interval, but of one offence, more or less aggravated according to the length of time the tenement was so maintained. In Wells v. Commonwealth, 12 Gray 326, the court say: "A nuisance is an offence that may have continuance, and may therefore be laid with a continuando.
C. R. Train, Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.
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