109 Mass. 344 | Mass. | 1872
The statute provides that whoever, without a license from the mayor and aldermen or selectmen, keeps or suffers to be kept in a house, building, yard, or dependency thereof, by him actually occupied or owned, a table for the purpose of playing at billiards for hire, gain or reward, shall be subject to a fine. Gen. Sts. e. 88, § 70. In the case at bar, it was shown at the trial, that the defendant fitted up a room in a building owned by him with three billiard tables, and let the room and the tables to John Shehan for the agreed price of ten dollars per week; and that the tables, "with the knowledge of the defendant, were used for the purpose of playing at billiards for hire, gain or reward, neither the defendant nor Shehan having a license.
It does not appear whether there was any other evidence at the trial; but if there was not, the jury would be justified m finding a verdict of guilty upon the facts stated in the report and inch inferences as may be fair1/ drawn from them. The tables
Sentence on the verdict*