Siler v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

The defendant, Lucy Siler, was convicted in both of these cases of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor to one Parley, and in each complains that the court erred in overruling her demurrer to the indictment, and in instructing the jury orally.

The only 'objection to the indictments is that in negativing the exceptions stated in the section of the statute which defines the offense (2554a-l), the words “in the Commonwealth of Kentucky” are omitted, but as each indictment in a single sentence charges the commission of the offense in the county of…