Alvey v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson—

Affirming.

Appellant, Alvey, assisted by Joe Harper, ran a soft drink stand and restaurant in Owensboro in 1922. Tbe *656police officers of the city became suspicious of Alvey’s place because of rumors coming to them to the effect that he was bootleg'ging whiskey. They obtained a witness and took him before the county judge, who procured from the witness an affidavit' which in part reads:

“The affiant says that his reasons for believing that intoxicating liquors are unlawfully kept for sale on said premises by the said Chas. F. Alvey are: that he has…