Jones v. Commonwealth

Sims, P.,

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

The sole question presented for decision by the assignments of error is the following:

1. Whether it should have appeared to the satisfaction of the court below from the evidence that the owner of the automobile, Herman W. Jones, “was ignorant of the illegal use to which the same was put, and that such illegal use was without his connivance or consent, express or implied?”

The question must be answered in the affirmative.

The illegal use in question consisted of the use of the automobile by the passenger,…