Barnett v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

On appeal to the circuit court from a judgment of conviction in the magistrate’s court of the offense of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquors, appellant was again convicted and now appeals to this court.

Outside of the evidence of a number of witnesses to the effect that the reputation of appellant as a bootlegger was bad, the only evidence produced against him was the testimony of C. L. Wedding. This witness claimed to have made a search of the soft drink stand where appellant worked under a federal search warrant, and in the course of…