Youman v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Moorman

Affirming.

Boy Youman was indicted and tried in tlie Hardin circuit court for an offense denounced by section 2572c,' subsection 8 of Kentucky Statutes, an act of tlie legislature of Marcli 29,1918. He was convicted and bis punisliment fixed at a fine of $500.00 and imprisonment in tlie county jail for six months. A reversal of that judgment is sought on the ground that the statute, under which the conviction was procured, is incompatible with the eighteenth amendment of the 'Constitution of the United *538States and the provisions of the Yolstead Act, known as…