Campbell v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Stanley

Reversing.

The Q-eneral Assembly, at its 1916 session, enacted what is commonly called the “the Lobbyist Act” (chapter 16), which is now incorporated in the statutes as sections 1999al et seq. The court has not hitherto been •called upon to consider the constitutionality or construction of the law.

The appellant, Peter Campbell, appeals from a judgment fining him $750 for a violation of section 6 of the act, it being charged that, as legislative counsel or agent, •employed for a pecuniary consideration by the Kentucky State Federation of Labor, he went…