Ramey v. Commonwealth

The plaintiff in error was indicted, tried and convicted for “transporting whiskey,” and was sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars and to imprisonment for thirty days. He moved to set aside the verdict as “contrary to the law and the evidence and without evidence to support it,” which motion the trial court overruled. This ruling of the trial court is the only error assigned.

The only evidence offered by the Commonwealth was the testimony of May Ramey as to the offense charged, and that of A. V. Short, a Federal prohibition officer, and of B. F. Little, a deputy sheriff, that the accused…