Carter v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

At its March term, 1930, the grand jury of Jessamine county returned an indictment against Edgar Carter for the crime of unlawfully and feloniously possessing intoxicating liquor, and it was charged in the indictment that on September 18, 1929, he had been convicted of a like offense, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $200 and confinement in jail for a period of thirty days. On the trial of the case he was found guilty, and his punishment fixed at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary, his previous conviction having been shown on…