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301 Ky. 556

192 S.W.2d 479

Bingham v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · decided 1946-02-08

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 1959

2 state decisions

Relies on Stafford v. Bailey · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Sprinkles v. Commonwealth

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Decided 1946-02-08

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¶1 Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

¶2 Reversing.

¶3 Gene Bingham was convicted under an indictment charging him with the offense of selling intoxicating' liquor in local option territory, and his punishment was fixed at a fine of $100 and confinement fox thirty days in the county jail. The indictment failed to set out the name of the person to whom the accused was alleged to have sold the liquor or to state the name «of the person was unknown. Excepting names and dates,-the indictment is drawn in substantially the same language as the indictments in Johnson v. Commonwealth, 299 Ky. 72, 184 S. W. 2d 212, and Sprinkles v. Commonwealth, 301 Ky. 161, 191 S. W. 2d 218, which were held to be fatally defective.

¶4 The motion for an appeal is sustained, the appeal granted, and the judgment reversed for proceedings consistent herewith.

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