Lefler v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

-Reversing.

The appellant was convicted, both in the police court of Catlettsburg and in the Boyd circuit court on appeal, of the offense of unlawfully possessing liquor. From the latter judgment he brings this appeal.

During the year 1925, and for ¡some years prior thereto, appellant was a justice of the peace of Boyd county, and, as such, had been quite active in connection with J. M. Biliter, then a federal prohibition agent, but now the county tax commissioner of Pike county, in ferreting out and arresting violators of the state and national prohibition…