Court Opinion

ID: 7156022
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:08:42.799734+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:14.566065
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Judge Hines :
The indictment here is for renting a house for the use and purpose of creating a nuisance, which is an offense at common law. Cheek v. Commonwealth, 79 Ky. 359, 2 Ky. L. 339. But the specifications in the indictment do not set forth facts constituí*335ing such an offense. The specifications, in substance, are that appellee “knowingly and wilfully rented the house for the sale of vinous and spirituous liquors, and for the purpose of erecting a tippling house, where vinous and spirituous liquors were to be sold, the person so renting having no license therefor.” There is no charge that the person to whom the premises were rented was a merchant, or that liquor was to be sold or was sold to be drunk upon the premises or adjacent thereto. As decided by this court in Commonwealth v. Wheeler, 79 Ky. 284, 2 Ky. L. 199, it is no offense either at common law or under the statute to sell whisky in any quantity without license unless the person so selling is a merchant, or unless the liquor is sold to be drunk upon the premises or adjacent thereto.

P. W. Hardin, for appellant.

Durham & Jacobs, for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.