Gray v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting appellant of selling whiskey to A. B. Clark, on July 15, 1924, in the city of Hopkinsville.

The first complaint is that the court erred in refusing to permit the defendant to prove by the prosecuting witness that, under his employment as special policeman, he was paid no salary but was to receive $25.00 for each bootlegger he convicted, and nothing if there was no conviction.

That this was error is clear, as is conceded by counsel for the Commonwealth. Jones v. Commonwealth, 154 Ky. 640, 357 S. W. 1079. It…