Legal Opinion
Hay v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Decided October 11, 1968PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEINFELD, Judge.
John Hay was found guilty of violating KRS 242.230, which prohibited possessing alcoholic beverages for sale in dry local option territory. He appeals. We reverse.
A police officer in the City of Greenup, Kentucky, arrested a young man “for drinking beer on the outside” of the Youth Center. The young man implored the officer not to put him in jail. The officer inquired as to where the young man had purchased the beer whereupon he said: “I got it from John Hay out at Sand Suck” and that he had purchased beer from Hay for his father on many occasions. The officer then asked the…
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