Alcoholic Beverage Control Board v. Eversole

CLAY, Commissioner.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board appeals from a judgment of the Franklin Circuit Court setting aside its order revoking appellee’s retail package liquor and beer licenses.

Appellee had been charged with violating KRS 244.120 and 243.500(7). The former statute prohibits a person from maintaining disorderly premises or permitting criminals or people of ill repute to congregate thereon. The latter statute authorizes revocation of a license for permitting gambling on the premises.

The proof shows that on June 20, 1953, two deputy sheriffs found three men engaged in playing…