Blevins v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge 'Settle

Reversing.

Following his indictment for the offense charged, the appellant, Gus Blevins, was tried and convicted in the Johnson circuit court of a second violation of the statute known as the “Rash-Gullion Act” (chapter 33, Acts General Assembly 1922), and his punishment fixed by the verdict of the jury declaring him guilty at confinement of one year in the penitentiary. He complains of the verdict and judgment of the court approving same and has appealed.

The offense'aptly charged in the indictment as constituting the second violation of the statute, supra,…