Adams Express Co. v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

This case comes here on the appeal of the Adams Express Company from a judgment assessing a fine against it of $150.00 for a violation of section 2569b of the Kentucky Statutes. The indictment under which the conviction was had was returned by the grand jury in March, 1916, and charged that: “The said. Adams Express Co., on the 9th day of March, 1916, in the county aforesaid, a territory in which the local option law is now in force, did unlawfully as a common carrier, transport and deliver to Russell Jones, vinous, malt, brewed, fermented,…