Reed v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice

Affirming.

At the May, 1941, term of the Estill circuit court, the grand jury jointly indicted Wayne Eeed, Leonard Eeed (his brother) and G-arnie Walters, accusing them of the crime of dynamiting fish in Estill county, committed by willfully and feloniously placing or causing to be placed dynamite in the Kentucky river and by exploding or causing it to explode, thereby killing fish in the stream.

Wayne Eeed was tried separately on the charge, convicted and his punishment fixed at one year’s confinement in the state reformatory.

At a later day of the same May…