Hale v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

Accused, Hale, tried and convicted by a jury in the Casey circuit court of the offense of knowingly selling to one Shackelford, for beverage purposes, a concoction known as Jamaica ginger, prosecutes this appeal.

In his brief appellant says that the indictment in this case was fatally defective and that the court sought to cure the defect by requiring the Commonwealth to elect, and in this the court erred, and should have sustained the demurrer to the indictment. We hav'e examined the transcript with care but find no record of a demurrer having…