Hudspeth v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court, by

Chief Justice Hurt

Reversing.

The appellant, Asher Hudspeth, was attempted to be indicted for a violation of section 1201c, Ky. Stats. He interposed a general demurrer to the indictment, which being overruled he was put upon trial and convicted. He has appealed, and while he relies upon several alleged errors of the court as grounds for a reversal of the judg*5ment, it will only be necessary to consider the first, or the one committed by overruling the demurrer to the indictment.

The ground, whereon it is insisted, that the indictment is defective, is that it does not…