Commonwealth v. Stepp

*470Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Hurt

Reversing.

At the April term of the Martin circuit court, 1920, the grand jury returned an indictment which, leaving off the caption, is as follows:

“The grand jury of Martin county in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse J. A. Stepp of the offense of unlawfully becoming and being interested and concerned, both directly and indirectly, in contracts for work done for Martin county on its public roads, he at the time being a regularly elected, qualified, commissioned and acting justice of the peace or magistrate of .said…