Jackson v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

Two young men, Jackson and Sims, were jointly indicted in the Grant circuit court for the crime of grand larceny, to which charge they pleaded guilty. A trial being had, the jury returned a verdict reading:

“We, the jury, find the defendants guilty and fix their punishment at eighteen months in the penitentiary.”

Jackson was only nineteen and Sims eighteen years oí age, and these facts having been made known to the court, the defendants were sentenced to the house of reform at Greendale, instead of the penitentiary, at Frankfort. From the orders of…