Adams Express Co. v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Nunn

Reversing.

The appellant was convicted and fined $100 on an indictment for carrying and transporting spirituous liquors into local option territory on the 22d day of June, 1914, and delivering the same to one Joe Cottle. The appellant urges a reversal for several reasons.

Joe Cottle was the only witness introduced by the Commonwealth, and he testifies that about Christmas before the finding of the indictment — not June 22d as alleged — he mailed an order to Josselson Brothers at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, for four quarts of whiskey, and enclosed the money to pay…