Colten v. Kentucky

delivered the opinion of the Court.. This case presents two unrelated questions.. Appellant challenges his Kentucky conviction for disorderly eondüct on the ground that the conviction and the State’s' statute are repugnant to the First and Fourteenth Amendments. He also challenges the constitutionality of the enhanced penalty he .received under Kentucky’s two-tier system for adjudicating certain criminal cases, whereby a person charged with a misdemeanor may be tried first in an inferior court and, if dissatisfied with the outcome, may have a trial de novo in a court of general *106criminal…