Eaves v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson

Affirming.

Mattie Eaves was indicted, tried, and convicted for the second offense of unlawfully having in her possession spirituous liquors; she having been previously convicted for the same offense in the Hopkins quarterly court. Her punishment was fixed under section 2554a-2, Kentucky Statutes, by the verdict of the jury at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year; judgment was accordingly entered, from which .she appeals.

On the day it is charged the offense was committed, she was at her home'; she called some one by telephone and…