Maier v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Affirming.

Conrad Maier appeals from a judgment of conviction on the charge of unlawfully having intoxicating liquor in. his possession and urges as grounds for reversal: (1) Erroneous instructions. (2) Incompetent evidence. (3) He is entitled to a peremptory instruction. (4) Evidence is insufficient to support the verdict.

The first instruction reads in part:

“If the jury believe from the evidence beyond a • reasonable doubt that the defendant, Conrad Maier, on April 19,1924, in the city of Clifton, Campbell county, Kentucky, possessed, or had in his…