Owens v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

— Affirming.

Under an indictment for selling liquor in violation of the local option law, the appellant was convicted. He asks a reversal of the judgment against him on the ground that there was no evidence to support the verdict, and that the instructions were erroneous. The evidence of appellant’s guilt is not satisfactory, hut in this class of cases it does not and ought not to require very convincing evidence to sustain a verdict of guilty, and when a jury has passed on the question we will not disturb its finding if there are any facts or circumstances…