Walker v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

— Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Madison circuit court entered upon a verdict finding the appellant, Owen Walker, guilty under an indictment charging that he unlawfully sold, February 28, 1921, spirituous liquors in violation of an act passed by the general assembly in 1920, known as the “prohibition statute;” and further charging that he had theretofore “been tried and convicted for the unlawful sale of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors by judgment rendered against him in the Madison circuit court on the 27th day of February, 1917, and…