Commonwealth v. Cassady

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Hobson—

Affirming.

In seven prosecutions against him in the Whitley Circuit Court for selling liquor illegally, John Cassady was found guilty, his punishment being fixed at fine and imprisonment. He was placed in' jail under the judgments, and after his release from jail, this proceeding' was instituted by the Commonwealth against him attaching in the hands of the jailer $440.00, .which the jailer had found in his possession while he was in jail.. *777He pleaded among other things that he was a bona fide housekeeper with a family, a resident of the State of…