Posey v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hurt

Reversing.

The appellant, Raymond Posey, was indicted and tried in the Boyd circuit court, for the offense of unlawfully transporting whiskey. Pie was found guilty by the verdict of the jury, and was so adjudged by the court, and his punishment fixed at a fine of one hundred and fifty dollars and imprisonment for the period of forty days in the county jail. His motion to set aside the verdict and judgment and to grant him a new trial was overruled, and he has appealed. He insists that the judgment should he reversed because the court erred to the…