Loving v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Affirming.

Appellant was indicted charged with the obstruction of justice by unlawfully and corruptly enticing, soliciting, hiring and persuading two named witnesses to absent themselves from the county and not to appear at a given term of court and give evidence against him in a prosecution' then pending against him:

The offense charged is a common law misdemeanor, but the penalty therefor is prescribed by section 1294, Kentucky Statutes, wherein it is provided that upon conviction the defendant shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion…