Hampton v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

The appellant, Joe Hampton, was tried in the Harlan police court under a warrant issued by the judge thereof, which charged him with the offense of unlawfully having in his possession intoxicating liquor. His trial resulted in a verdict of the jury finding him guilty., and fixing his punishment at a fine of $300.00 and imprison? ment of sixty days in jail. He prosecuted an appeal from the judgment entered upon that verdict to the Harlan circuit court, and upon his trial in the latter court, was by verdict of a jury again found guilty and his…