Linde v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant, Henry Lincle, was convicted in the Hardin circuit court of the offense of selling intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes, and on this appeal from the judgment pronounced on the verdict counsel urge two errors as grounds for reversal (1), impropor questions propounded by Commonwealth’s attorney in cross-examining defendant’s character witnesses and (2), improper remarks made by him in his closing argument to the jury and to which the court overruled objections. The foundation for ground (1) arose in this way: Defendant introduced…