Scaggs v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Moorman —

Affirming.

An indictment was.returned against the appellant, Dr. Lafayette Scaggs, in the Greenup circuit court, charging him with the offense of unlawfully transporting *400intoxicating liquors for other than sacramental, scientific, mechanical or medicinal purposes, in violation of chapter 81 of the Acts of 1920. On the trial he was adjudged guilty, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $240.00 and thirty days’ imprisonment in the county jail.. Prom that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

In December, 1921, and January, 1922, Walter McCarty, a boy about…