Fugate v. Commonwealth

Opinion- op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

At the March, 3916, term, of the Perry circuit court, the grand jury returned two indictments, Nos. 60 and 61, respectively, against appellant, charging her with having in her possession spirituous, vinous and malt liquors for the purpose of sale in local option territory as denounced by subsection 2 of section 2557b of the Kentucky Statutes.

She was tried and convicted under both of these indictments at the May term of court. The evidence for the Commonwealth in both cases was the same. Pier motion and grounds for a new trial having been…