Nicholas v. Commonwealth

The defendant, Nicholas, has been found guilty of contempt and sentenced to serve twelve months in jail and to pay a fine of five hundred dollars for violating an injunction issued October 19, 1942, enjoining him from, among other things, selling alcoholic beverages on certain premises in Cumberland county. We recently upheld a conviction of the defendant for violating the same injunction. Nicholas v. Commonwealth, ante, p. 315, 42 S. E. (2d) 306.

The violation alleged, and of which he was found guilty in this instance, was a sale of a fifth of a gallon of whiskey to Frazier White on the night…