Pennington v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

Appellant, Watt Pennington, seeks a reversal of a judgment convicting him of the second offense of manufacturing intoxicating liquor and fixing his punishment at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

Several witnesses were asked if they knew appellant’s general reputation “as to being engaged in the illicit liquor business,” and on answering in the affirmative were permitted to state that it was bad. Attention is called to the fact that the statute makes admissible in evidence “the general reputation of the defendant or defendants for…