Sturgill v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry —

Reversing.

The appellant, Rachel Sturgill, was indicted in the Knott circuit court and charged with a second offense of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor under section 2554a-2, Kentucky Statutes, and, upon her trial, she was convicted and her punishment fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for one year.

The first count of the indictment charged that the appellant, on the 2nd day of March, 1931, in the county of Knott, sold intoxicating liquor to Mont Conley, Green Conley, and Mitchell Thomas, and the second count charged that she had been tried…