Legal Opinion

Bean v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided October 10, 1924PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from Daviess Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion, of the Court by

Judge Clarke —

Affirming.

Appellant was convicted of selling home brew, alleged to be an intoxicating liquor.

His first complaint is that the court erred in refusing to direct his acquittal because there was no competent proof the liquor was intoxicating. The two witnesses who bought it, however, testified without objection upon direct examination that they each drank a bottle of it, and that it was intoxicating,, and each was made to repeat the statement upon cross-examination..

*781It is therefore clear the competency of this evidence cannot now be questioned, and that it…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Frey v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1916
  2. Gourley v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1910
  3. Deer v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1922

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Phillips v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1924

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