Kelly v. Commonwealth

Judge Rees

Affirming.

Jane Kelly has been convicted of the offense of carrying concealed upon or about her person a deadly weapon, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years. She seeks reversal of the judgment on the sole ground that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict, and that she was therefore entitled to a directed verdict of acquittal.

The chief witness for the prosecution, Mrs. Jay Cable, testified that appellant appeared at her home during the latter part of March or early in April, 1949, for the purpose of borrowing $5 to pay her expenses to…