Hall v. Commonwealth

Culton Hall was indicted in the Circuit Court of Wise county for violation of the prohibition law. He pleaded not guilty, and upon his trial was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and to be imprisoned for ninety days.

He asks that this judgment be reversed for three reasons:

*820(1) Because four witnesses, testifying on behalf of the Commonwealth, and who had testified that the reputation of the accused for violation of the prohibition law was bad, were permitted by the court, as the foundation upon which their testimony of bad reputation rested, to say that it was rumored among the…