Curtis v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hurt

Affirming.

The appellant, James J. Curtis, was in the business of conducting a saloon and restaurant in Paris, Kentucky. A door led from the restaurant into the saloon, opening opposite the counter in the saloon and about eight or ten feet from it.

Curtis had in his employ a negro, whose name was Reuben Henderson, and' who had been engaged by appellant for five or six weeks in cleaning up the saloon and restaurant and waiting upon the customers in both places. On the evening of the 13th day of February, 1914, the appellant was drunk- and the negro was drinking…