Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court January 7, 1891 (Commonwealth v. Stevens)

W. Allen, J.

There was evidence tending to show that the defendant was in his bar-room on the Sunday in question; that Conley, being under the influence of liquor, went into the barroom while the defendant was there, and after ten or fifteen minutes came out with a bottle full of whiskey in his pocket; that Conley was a witness for the government at the trial in the court below; and that the