Kentucky Profanity Law
Article taken from The Delphos Daily Herald, April 3, 1902
Kentucky has a peculiar law against profanity, which imposes a penalty of $1 per curse. Recently a resident of South Portsmouth was haled before court for profanely assailing a neighbor and fined under the law, $15--a dollar for each count in the complaint--and "one cent as a general fine." The law and the decision threaten one of the Kentucky colonels' most cherished privileges.