Smith v. Commonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The Judge of the Jackson County Court, sitting as Judge of the Quarterly Court, tried Millard Smith and Offia Carpenter on a warrant charging them with contributing to conditions which caused five children (named Carpenter) to become delinquent or neglected “contrary to KRS 199.320.” They were adjudged guilty and fined $100 each and sentenced to serve sixty days in jail. KRS 199.990(3). The defendants appealed to the Circuit Court. The appeal was dismissed on the ground that the defendants “neither filed their motion for an appeal supported by an affidavit of merits.”…