127 Ky. 480 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1907
Opinion op the Court by
Affirming.
James E. Lemore was indicted for violating the local option law in Pulton county. The proof on the
In view of the conduct and circumstances of the parties, there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury. While the evidence is not precisely the same, when taken as a whole, it as well shows an evasion of the statute as the proof in either of the two cases cited. Lemore is engaged in interstate commerce. The State of Kentucky may not interfere with interstate commerce; but when he takes a man from Kentucky out in the river to sell him whisky, and then brings him back to Kentucky, he is not engaged in interstate commerce, but simply selling whisky in evasion of the laws of Kentucky. Foppiano v. Speed, 199 U. S. 501, 26 Sup. Ct. 138, 50 L. Ed. 288. If he had sold the whisky while his boat was lying at the
In addition to this, while by the act of Congress the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river is the boundary between Kentucky and Missouri, both states are given concurrent jurisdiction over it. Act Cong. March 6, 1820, c. 22, 3 Stat. 545. The center of the Mississippi is also the line
Judgment affirmed.