218 Ky. 700
291 S.W 1063
Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)
Decided March 4, 1927
Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · decided 1927-03-04
Relies on Wallen v. Commonwealth
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1927-03-04
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1959
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
View the full empirical analysis of this case →
¶1 Opinion of the Court by
¶2 Reversing
¶3 The appellant was convicted of the offense of the unlawful possession of liquor, being tried in his absence. He has appealed.
¶4 It is impossible to distinguish this case in its essential facts from that of Wallen v. Commonwealth, 204 Ky. 612, 264 S. W. 1106, and on the authority of that case the judgment of the lower court herein is reversed, with instructions to grant the appellant a new trial herein.