Harvey v. Commonwealth

DAVIS, Commissioner.

Having been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for three years upon a charge of grand larceny, Lawrence Harvey appeals and contends: (1) that he was entitled to a peremptory instruction of acquittal; (2) that the trial court unduly restricted his right of cross-examination of witnesses; (3) that the court made improper comments in the presence of the jury; and (4) that the instructions and forms of verdicts submitted to the jury were erroneous.

According to the evidence for the Commonwealth, Lawrence Harvey and Benjamin Jack Anderson were seen carrying a television set…