Wedding v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clay

Reversing.

Fcl Wedding was convicted of chicken stealing, and his first insistence is that his motion for a peremptory should have been sustained. According to the evidence for the Commonwealth an automobile containing a lot of chickens was found wrecked on the road about eight miles from Owensboro. The chickens were identified as belonging to W. T. Grant. The car was one which had been sold to appellant, though he stated at the time that he was buying it for his brother Hillary. On the next morning appellant left hisjhome and went to Henderson, where he was…