Legal Opinion

Hays v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided February 27, 1900PublishedCited by 19 opinions

■ Case 110 — INDICTMENT FOR PEDDLING APPEAL PROM JESSAMINE CIRCUIT COURT. (Brief for the appellant withdrawn.) 1. The indictment is good. It sustantially follows the statute creating the offense. Com. v. Engle, 52 S. W. R., 811; 42 S. ' W. R., 101; 29 Cent. Law Jour., 286; Thompson on Corps, vol. 5, 6434; 7 Am. & Eng. Ency, of Law, 841, and cases cited; Ky. ¡Stats., secs. 475, 4216; Robertson’s Crim. Law and Proeed., 1036, citing L. & N. R. R. Co. v. Com., 11 Ky.

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■ Case 110 — INDICTMENT FOR PEDDLING APPEAL PROM JESSAMINE CIRCUIT COURT. (Brief for the appellant withdrawn.) 1. The indictment is good. It sustantially follows the statute creating the offense. Com. v. Engle, 52 S. W. R., 811; 42 S. ' W. R., 101; 29 Cent. Law Jour., 286; Thompson on Corps, vol. 5, 6434; 7 Am. & Eng. Ency, of Law, 841, and cases cited; Ky. ¡Stats., secs. 475, 4216; Robertson’s Crim. Law and Proeed., 1036, citing L. & N. R. R. Co. v. Com., 11 Ky. Law Rep., 442; 1 Bish. Crim. Proc., 682. 2. Who are peddlers: Ky. Stat., sec. 4216; 9 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law (1st ed.), 307 and…

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE GUFFY

delivered the opinion of the coubt.

The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted upon the charge of peddling without license, and, his motion for a new trial having been overruled, he prosecutes this appeal.

*657The indictment reads as follows:

“The grand jury of Jessamine county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse J. L. Hays of the offense of peddling, committed as follows, viz.: That said J. L. Hays, on the 7th day of March, 1899, in the county aforesaid, and on divers other days within twelve months before the finding of this indictment, did…

2Cited by19 opinions

  1. Dawson v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1921
  2. Eastern Ky. Coal Lands Corp. v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1907
  3. Ex parte BylesSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
  4. Crall & Ostrander v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1905
  5. H. L. Carpel of Richmond, Inc. v. City of RichmondSupreme Court of Virginia · 1934

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