Bregel v. City of Newport
Decision Date | 28 April 1925 |
Citation | 271 S.W. 665,208 Ky. 581 |
Parties | BREGEL v. CITY OF NEWPORT ET AL. |
Court | Kentucky Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Campbell County.
Frank Bregel was demoted from the rank of chief of police of the city of Newport for inefficiency and neglect in performing his duties by the board of city commissioners, and its finding was affirmed by the circuit court, and he appeals. Reversed and remanded.
William F. Clark, of Newport, for appellant.
Charles M. Ciarlo and Louis Reuscher, both of Newport, for appellees.
Frank Bregel was a member of the Newport police department for 25 years, and for 8 years of this term was chief of the police department. On February 8, 1924, charges were preferred against him before the board of city commissioners, and on the 11th of February a hearing was had upon which he was adjudged guilty of the charges, and demoted to the rank of patrolman. The charges preferred against him before the board were: (1) That he was guilty of influencing votes at the 1923 election; and (2) inefficiency and neglect in the performance of his duties as chief of police in the years 1922, 1923, and 1924. Both charges were sustained. He appealed from the finding of the board to the Campbell circuit court. The case was heard, and on February 28, 1924, it was adjudged that he was guilty of inefficiency and neglect in the performance of his duty as chief of the police department in failing to properly carry out orders from his superiors and regulating the conduct of the police. From this judgment he has appealed to this court.
There was no evidence that appellant was guilty of influencing votes at the election, and this charge was properly dismissed by the circuit court. As to the charge of inefficiency and neglect in the performance of his duty a more serious question arises. Section 3138--4, Kentucky Statutes provides:
The charges filed before the board were in these words:
This charge is not sufficient under the statute. It does not set out with clearness or distinctness any charge. There is a similar statute authorizing a lawyer to be disbarred for neglect or lack of moral character, but it is uniformly held that the specific charges must be made with sufficient distinctness to enable the person charged to know the acts which are charged against him. There is a similar statute in regard to physicians. The original act was held unconstitutional in Matthews v. Murphy, 63 S.W. 785 23 Ky. Law Rep. 750, 54 L. R. A. 415, for uncertainty, and the amended statute was sustained on the ground that it prescribed a standard, and the prosecution under this statute was sustained when the specific acts charged against the defendant were set out, although it was held in that case that the court would not grant an injunction restraining the...
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