Moore v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Reversing.

The appellant, Jack Moore, was convicted in the Rowan quarterly court of violating the local option law, KRS 242.010 et seq., which had been adopted in that county, and was punished by the assessment of a fine of $100 and imprisonment in the county jail for 30 days. He prosecuted an appeal to the Rowan circuit court where he was again convicted and received the same punishment. His motion in that court was overruled and he has filed in this court the record with a motion for an appeal which is hereby granted.

After the case reached the circuit…