Caudill v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Sandidge, Commissioner

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Pike Circuit court imposing on the appellant, Mathew Caudill, a fine of $500.00 and imprisonment in jail for six months for a violation of the statute against the manufacture of spirituous liquors. The appellant urges several grounds as reasons for a reversal, only two of which it is deemed necessary to notice.

1. The indictment in this case reads as follows:

“The grand jury of Pike county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Mathew Caudill of the offense of…