Jacobs v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Clay

Reversing.

Cuba Jacobs challenges the correctness of the trial •court’s ruling in denying her a new trial.

The facts are: At the December term, 1932, of the Knott circuit court she was indicted for possessing an illicit still. The case was set for trial on March 8, 1934. Mrs. Jacobs failed to appear, trial was had, and she was found guilty and her punishment fixed at a fine of $100 and thirty days in jail. At the same term she applied for a new trial on the ground that she lived ten miles from Hindman, the place of trial, the weather was bad, and she was…