Court Opinion

ID: 7155463
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:07:02.426534+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:13.854325
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Judge Hines:
The judgment of the court below was reversed upon the supposition that the plea of former acquittal had been properly entered; but *541our attention is called to the fact that'the only record evidence of such a plea is the following order: “This day came the defendant and entered a plea of not guilty and former acquittal.” This is not sufficient, under Sec. 164 of the Criminal Code, to authorize the introduction of evidence to establish the fact of a former acquittal. A plea properly entered and sustained by evidence would entitle appellant, under the 'authority of Commonwealth v. Bright, 78 Ky. 238, to a reversal, but in the absence of a plea the evidence is incompetent and the judgment must be affirmed.

W. B. Smith, for appellant.

Hardin, for appellee.