Case ID: sw2d_263/html/0721-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WIENTJES v. COMMONWEALTH.
    Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
    Oct. 2, 1953.
    Rehearing Denied Feb. 5, 1954.
    Gordon B. Winburn, Louisville, for appellant.
    , J. D. Buckman, Jr., Atty. Gen., John B. Browning, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
   ■ PER CURIAM.

Motion for an appeal from the Jefferson Circuit Court, Criminal Branch. L. R. Curtis, Judge.

Herbert A. Wientjes, Sr., was found guilty of operating a handbook in violation of.KRS 436.440, and his punishment fixed at six months in jail and a fine of $1,000. He has filed a motion for an appeal on the grounds that the evidence was obtained by an illegal search, and that it was error for the trial judge'to examine a prospective juror in chambers and out of the presence of the panel.

We are affirming the judgment because we think the evidence was obtained by a legal search, and that the trial judge did not abuse his discretion when he examined a prospective juror in chambers and out of the presence of the panel.

Judgment affirmed.