Commonwealth v. Bentley

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The Commonwealth seeks an opinion as to the law with respect to a peremptory instruction to acquit Joe E. Bentley on a charge of transporting intoxicating liquor for purpose of sale in local option territory.

One night about 11 o’clock in February, 1951, two state policemen were in a parked car watching traffic, which was quite heavy, at the intersection of two highways in Pike County. They saw Bentley ignore a stop sign and run through a red traffic light at 30 or 40 m. p. h., and pursued him. Officer Craft testified they “ran him down and wrote him a citation for…