Hall v. Commonwealth

HILL, Judge.

By this opinion we entertain and dispose of appellant’s motion for appeal from a jury verdict and judgment imposing a $1,000 fine on him for assault and battery charged to have been committed on one Melvin Cheek. (KRS 431.075)

The agreed narrative approved by the trial court pursuant to RCr 12.68 indicates appellant, a deputy constable, and the prosecuting witness, Melvin Cheek, met on Boone Alley, a one-way street in the city of Lexington, and neither wanted to back up. By custom, Cheek was traveling the proper direction; but, due to a mistake in the posting of a one-way sign,…