Little v. Commonwealth

WADDILL, Commissioner.

The appellant was indicted for a second violation of the local option law. KRS 242.-230. Upon trial of the case in the circuit court a magistrate of Pike County, Kentucky, was permitted to testify, over objections, that appellant was convicted in the magistrate’s court during the August 1952 term of the offense of illegal possession of alcoholic beverages for the purpose of sale in Pike County, a dry local option territory. However, when the official record of this conviction was produced it showed that the magistrate was in error in that the conviction had been for a…