Shepherd v. Commonwealth

*282Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

The appellant, Tobe Shepherd, was tried and convicted in the court below of the offense of unlawfully having in his possession spirituous liquors for sale, and his punishment fixed by verdict of the jury and the judgment entered thereon, at a fine of $100.00 and confinement of 30 days in jail. Complaining that his conviction was wrongfully obtained, and also of the denial to him of a new trial, he has appealed from the judgment of the circuit court.

Two of the grounds that were urged for the new trial are relied on for a reversal of the judgment…