Ruark v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson—

Affirming.

James Euark was indicted in the Hart Circuit Court for wilfully and corruptly obstructing public justice. On the trial of the case he was found guilty as charged and. his punishment fixed at a fine of two hundred and fifty ($250.00) dollars and ten days confinement in jail. Ha appeals.

The facts of the case as shown by the evidence for the Commonwealth which were evidently believed by the jury, are in substance these:

*48A warrant had been issued against Lydia Guinn charging her with selling whiskey in Hart county, ■ to Basil Sparks, in…