Minx v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Morris, Commissioner — ■

Reversing.

On February 15, 1940, tbe grand jury of Laurel county by a true bill charged appellant with a violation of the commonwealth’s liquor laws. Whether the indictment charges an infraction of the Alcoholic Control Act, Acts 1938, c. 2, or of the local option law, Kentucky Statutes, Section 2554c-l et seq., it is impossible to determine.

The accusative part charges Minx with having in his possession spirituous liquors, to-wit; taxed liquor, without having a license so to do. Jn the descriptive portion it was said that Minx unlawfully had in…