Downard v. Com.

• Decision Date: 12 February 1954
• Citation: 265 S.W.2d 454
• Parties: Marshall DOWNARD, James Mote and Floyd Bowman, appellants, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, appellee.
• Court: United States State Supreme Court — District of Kentucky

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265 S.W.2d 454

Marshall DOWNARD, James Mote and Floyd Bowman, appellants, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Feb. 12, 1954.

Motion to Reconsider, Set Aside and Reverse Denied March 26,

1954.

Motions for Appeals from Circuit Court, Campbell County; Raymond L. Murphy, Judge.

Thomas W. Hardesty, Newport, W. Clark Otte, Louisville, for appellants.

J. D. Buckman, Jr., Atty. Gen., Wm. F. Simpson, Asst. Atty. Gen., William J. Wise, Commonwealth's Atty., Newport, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

We are affirming the judgments sentencing each of the defendants to one year in jail and a $200 fine on a charge of keeping a house of ill fame. The defendants were arrested legally and the Campbell Circuit Court had jurisdiction to try them.

The motion for an appeal is overruled and the judgment is affirmed.