Sumner v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Moorman

Affirming.

Ishom Sumner was indicted and tried in Whitley county for unlawfully owning and having in his possession a moonshine still. He was adjudged to ipay a fine of $800.00 and sentenced to confinement in the county jail for thirty days:

Two of the errors assigned for a reversal of the judgment are: The indictment is demurrable in' that it charges the accused with the commission of two offenses, and the Commonwealth should have been required to elect which of the two charges it would prosecute. Whether these objections are well taken we need not decide as…