Morris v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Stanley Morris is asking for a reversal of a judgment imposing upon him two years’ confinement in the penitentiary for the illegal possession of whisky.

In February, 1927, the grand jury of Boyd county returned an indictment against Morris in which it was charged that in that month he had had in his possession intoxicating liquor (whisky) not for sacramental, scientific, medicinal, or mechanical purposes, and it was further charged that Morris had on 22d day of September, 1925, been convicted of having unlawfully had possession of whisky…