Cooley v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

Appellant Cooley was convicted iu the Floyd circuit court of the offense of unlawfully transporting liquor. He asks a reversal of the judgment upon several grounds, but we need notice only two of them: (1) He contends the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict; (2) the instructions given by the court to the jury were prejudicially erroneous.(1) The evidence shows. that on Sunday morning Cooley and several other persons met at a barn on tbeir *721way to ohnrch. Some one in the crowd suggested that he would like to have a drink of whiskey;…