City of Maysville v. Key

Opinion of ti-ie Court by

Chief Justice Sampson—

Reversing.

This is an action by the city of Maysville, a municipality of the third class, against James B. Key, cleric of the Mason circuit court, to recover the sum of $300.00 fine and $15.00 cost, which were assessed against one Wm. Edgar wTho was tried in the police court of said city on a charge of violating the prohibition laws of the Commonwealth and convicted and fined said sum of $300.00 and cost, and given a jail sentence and who later appealed from said judgment to the Mason circuit court where, upon the same charge, he was in a de novo…