Commonwealth v. Diebold

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Certifying the law.

The appellee, James Diebold, following his arrest under a warrant issued by Albert Nisbet, a magistrate of Jefferson country, charging him with the offense of unlawfully having in his possession intoxicating liquors, not for sacramental, medicinal, mechanical or scientific purposes, on his trial in the court of that magistrate was found guilty by verdict of a jury and his punishment thereby fixed at a fine of $300.00 and imprisonment of thirty days in jail. From the judgment entered upon that verdict he duly prosecuted an appeal to the…