Dees v. Commonwealth

SIMS, Judge.

J. Frank Dees was convicted on an indictment charging him as President and General Manager of the Mount Vernon Telephone Company with “unlawfully, wil-fully and unreasonably failing and refusing to furnish adequate, efficient and reasonable service * * * within twelve months before the finding of the indictment * * * by unlawfully, wilfully and unreasonably failing to keep adequate, efficient, reasonable or any switchboard operators on the said telephone Company’s switchboards for great and unreasonable length of time.” His punishment was fixed at a fine of $500, KRS 278.030(2)…