Kenyon v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that -3- “[w]hen the offense is a felony and ‘the trial court enters a nolle prosequi of [the felony] indictment, it lays “to rest that indictment and the underlying warrant without disposition, as though they had never existed’””
• stating that one convicted of a misdemeanor “may appeal to the circuit court for a trial de novo” which “annuls the former [district court] judgment as completely as if no trial had ever occurred”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).