Riley v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

This appeal challenges the propriety of proceedings resulting in a judgment convicting appellant of selling personal property upon which there was then an unsatisfied mortgage of record and fixing his punishment at one yearns confinement in the state reformatory.

His motion for a new trial having been overruled, he prosecutes this appeal.

At the June term, 1937, of the Owsley Circuit Court, the appellant, Justice Riley, was indicted for the offense, denounced by section 1358, Kentucky Statutes, of selling mortgaged property with the intent to hinder…