Crigler v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 66. — PROSECUTION AGAIN ST ROBERT L. AND JACOB S. CRIGLER FOR UNLAWFULLY SELLING LIQUOR. Appeal from Laurel Circuit Court. H. C. Faulkner, Circuit Judge. Defendants convicted and appeal.
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Case 66. — PROSECUTION AGAIN ST ROBERT L. AND JACOB S. CRIGLER FOR UNLAWFULLY SELLING LIQUOR. Appeal from Laurel Circuit Court. H. C. Faulkner, Circuit Judge. Defendants convicted and appeal. To recapitulate, we ask that the judgment be reversed for the following reasons; 1. The demurrer to the indictment should have been sustained because the Indictment did not charge an offense and there was a departure from the charge in the specifications, 2. The Commonwealth should have been compelled to elect Which act it would prosecute under. 3. 'The court should have peremptorily instructed the jury…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge Barker,
Affirming.
The appellants were indicted by tbe grand jury of Laurel county, charged with the offense of retailing liquor contrary to law. A trial resulted in their conviction and a fine being inflicted, and from the judgment enforcing this verdict they have appealed.
Laurel is one of the five counties in which the re*516tailing of spirituous liquors is prohibited by an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, commonly called the “Five Counties’ Act” (Acts 1883, 84, vol. 1; p. 1116, chap. 598). In Locke v. Commonwealth, 74 S. W., 654 25 Ky. Law Rep., 76, we…
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