Cole v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice, Thomas

Reversing.

On May 11, 1929, the Honorable H. H. Rayburn, county judge of Marshall county, issued a warrant for the arrest of the appellant, Will M. Cole, for having committed the offense of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor to one Morgan. The officer to whom it was delivered executed it by arresting appellant, and his trial thereunder came on to be heard, before the county judge who issued the warrant, on May 21, 1929, when objection was made to him presiding at the trial because under the law fixing his compensation therefor as it then existed…