Ball v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Settle—

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Bell circuit court based on the verdict of a jury finding the ap*190pellaxxt, Tim Ball, guilty of the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor and fixing his punishment at a fine of $300.00 and imprisonment of sixty days in jail, the offense being one for Avhich he was duly indicted.

While a number of additional grounds were urged by the appellant on his motion for a new trial, made in and overruled by the circuit court, that mainly relied on by him in this court for the reversal asked of the judgment…