Case Name: Johnson v. Commonwealth
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1927-02-25
Citations: 218 Ky. 585
Docket Number: 
Parties: Johnson v. Commonwealth.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 218
Pages: 585–585

Head Matter:
Johnson v. Commonwealth.
(Decided February 25, 1927.)
F. M. BURKE for appellant.
FRANK E. DAUGHERTY, Attorney General, and CHARLES F. ■CREAL, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion of the Court by
Judge Dietzman
Reversing.
The appellant was convicted of the offense of unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquor and has. appealed.
Conceding without deciding the competency of the •evidence discovered by the search warrant issued herein, we are unable to distinguish this case oh its facts from the cases of Bartley v. Commonwealth, 215 Ky. 850, 287 S. W. 22, and Johnson v. Commonwealth, 210 Ky. 398, 276 S. W. 125, wherein we held that proof of the possession of the means for making liquor would not alone support a conviction for the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor. The attorney general, with his usual •candor and fairness, concedes the point. It results that the appellant's motion for a peremptory instruction •should have been sustained.
The judgment, therefore, is reversed, with instructions to grant the appellant a new trial in conformity with this opinion.