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205 Ky. 364

Johnson v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided October 31, 1924

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1924-10-31

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1926

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Decided 1924-10-31

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¶1Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

¶2Reversing.

¶3This indictment charges appellant with all of the several offenses denounced by the first section of the *365Rash-Grullion act. His demurrer thereto was overruled without au election being required of or made by the prosecuting attorney as to which charge he would prosecute.

¶4Reversals for this particular error have been uniform and so frequent that we are ashed by the attorney general in reversing this case to place such emphasis upon the decision as will prevent further disregard of this old and simple rule of practice.

¶5We cannot, however, see how or believe that any emphasis we might put upon a particular decision could be more effective than the frequency of such decisions in securing either an avoidance of the error or a realization of the utter futility of such trials.

¶6For the reason indicated, the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded for proceedings consistent herewith.

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