Dressman v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Turner, Commissioner—

Affirming.

Appellant was charged in the Neon police court with unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, and upon his trial therein was found guilty and the minimum penalty of $100.00 and thirty days in jail adjudged against him.

He prosecuted an appeal from that judgment to the Letcher circuit court and took all necessary steps to perfect that appeal, and the same was docketed in that court.

Upon the calling of the case for trial in that court, but before the jury was impaneled and sworn, he entered his motion to dismiss the appeal which he had…