Teague v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

Lincoln Teague, the appellant, was tried in the police court of Madisonville on the charge of selling beer in violation of the local option law, about eight o’clock at night on October 16th and found not guilty. On the trial of this prosecution, after being first duly sworn as a witness, Teague, testifying in his own behalf, said that he was not in Madisonville between the hours of four o’clock in the afternoon and eleven-thirty o’clock on the night of that day, and that he did not sell at his place of business in Madisonville the beer he was…