Newton v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Moorman

Affirming.

Appellant was convicted in the Pulaski circuit court of the offense of selling intoxicating liquor, and was fined $200.00 and given a jail sentence of thirty days.' He has appealed from the judgment on the sole ground that the lower court erred in refusing to sustain his plea of former .-conviction.

*497On the trial of the case below the defendant plead in bar of .this prosecution a judgment of conviction of the-Pulaski circuit court rendered on March 20, 1922. The plea alleged that defendant had previously been convicted in the Pulaski circuit court…