Court Opinion

ID: 9675220
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:45:52.384967+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:32.558709
License: Public Domain

EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Judge
(dissenting).
I do not concur in the result reached by the majority opinion in the instant case for the same reason which impelled me to decline to concur in Arnett v. Meade, Ky., 462 S.W.2d 940.
I do not concur for the further reason that I am firmly of the opinion that conduct justifying a punishment of six months in jail and a $500 fine cannot in reason be classified as a petty offense as found by the august Supreme Court of the United States in Cheff v. Schnackenberg, 385 U.S. 373, 86 S.Ct. 1523, 16 L.Ed.2d 629. I may not have any business blasting at a majority opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, but blast I must even though it may reverberate as a pop gun. It seems to me that the declaration that any punishment not over six months in prison or a fine of $500 must be categorized as a petty offense is arbitrary and unrealistic.
It is upon these propositions that I not only decline to concur, but I dissent from the majority opinion.