Commonwealth v. Pash

Judge Ewing

delivered the opinion of the court.

Pash was presented by the Grand Jury, for betting with and winning and receiving twenty dollars, from Overall, Newbolt and Shirley, that Clayton Slaughter would beat John Samuels, at the ensuing election—they, together with two others, being candidates to represent the county of Nelson in the next General Assembly of Kentucky.

It having been proven that the money was bet and staked and won by Pash, and evidence tending to show that it was received by him at the instance of his counsel, the Court instructed the jury, “that, unless they believed from…