Mansfield v. Commonwealth

*281Ida Mansfield was convicted of a second violation of the prohibition law (laws 1924, chapter 407), and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

The only evidence of this second violation offered by the Commonwealth was the testimony of the deputy sheriff who made the arrest, which was as follows: “That sometime during January, 1925, he went to the home of Peyton and Ida Mansfield, and upon entering the house there was present Ida Mansfield, Peyton Mansfield, her husband, sick in bed upstairs, Margaret Grant, a white woman, and that Ida Mansfield was attempting to break a pint…