Mattingly v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

— Affirming

The appellant, J. A. Mattingly, complaining of his conviction in the court below of the offense of unlawfully transporting spirituous liquors, charged by indictment, and of that court’s refusal to grant him a new trial, prosecutes this appeal from its judgment.

The verdict of the jury finding him guilty fixed his punishment at a fine of $300.00 and imprisonment of thirty days in jail. The grounds urged by the appellant for the reversal of the judgment are, First: That the verdict is unsupported by and flagrantly against the *726evidence and appears to…