Cook v. Commonwealth

STEWART, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Estil Cook, was jointly indicted with Billy Heath, Carl Harrison, Bobby Walden and Charles Loveless by the grand jury of Pulaski County for the crime of chicken stealing, a crime denounced by KRS 433.250(4). The indictment charged that 20 chickens of the value of $1 each and of the aggregate value of $20 were stolen from Dault Gibson and his wife, the owners of the poultry. At the joint trial of Cook, Harrison and Walden on February 6, 1954, they were found guilty and each was sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. Loveless had, previously entered a…