Cook v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

William Rogers Clay, ' Commissioner

— Reversing.

Defendant, A. C. Cook, was convicted of the offense of maintaining a nuisance. His punishment was fixed at a fine of $150 and 20 days’ confinement in the county jail. He appeals.

The indictment charges that on the 30th day of January, and within twelve months before the finding’ of the indictment, the defendant did “unlawfully suffer and permit divers persons to habitually assemble in a house, same being a brick house near what is known as Rice-ville, in Pulton County, Kentucky, and same being then and there in his…