Parker v. Commonwealth

Sims, J.,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:

In the view we take of the case only two questions raised by the assignments of error need be considered. They will be disposed of in their order as stated below.

1. Did the court err in refusing to give the following instruction offered by the accused?

“The court instructs the jury that as it appears to the court from the evidence that there has been no intentional violation of any provision of the prohibition -act, but an unintentional or inadvertent violation ■thereof, they cannot impose a jail…