Alder v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Ratliff

Affirming.

The appellant, Jake Alder, Pete Bilyeu and Earl Poindexter were jointly indicted by the Grand Jury of Christian county charging them with the offense of grand larceny, viz., that they stole the sum of $60 in money from the prosecuting witness, Phelps Thomas. Appellant was tried separately at the June 1938 term of court, convicted and sentenced .to the penitentiary for a period of one year, and from that judgment he has prosecuted this appeal, insisting upon a reversal of the judgment upon various grounds.(1) It is insisted that the court erred in…