Middleton v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Harlan circuit court entered upon a verdict of a jury, whereby the appellant, Calvin Middleton, was found guilty of the offense of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors — “moonshine whiskey” — and his punishment fixed at a fine of $300.00 and imprisonment of sixty days in jail. The trial was had under an indictment charging him with the offense named, declared as such by chapter 81, section 1, Acts General Assembly 1920.

*626As none of the several grounds filed by the appellant in support of his motion for a…