Owens v. Commonwealth

This case is before us on a writ of error to a judgment in the court below whereby Abbitt Owens was sentenced to serve five years in the State penitentiary, pursuant to the verdict of a jury finding him guilty of grand larceny.

One of the main assignments of error is that the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence and without credible evidence to support it. Viewed in the light of the verdict the facts may be stated thus:

On August 2, 1946, W. M. Watkins, from whom the larceny was committed, was the manager of two housing *693projects, both known as Suburban Parkway and owned by Lee…