Gossett v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Morris, Commissioner

Affirming.

Appellant was indicted and convicted on a charge of receiving stolen goods, an offense denounced by Kentucky Statutes, Section 1199; the jury inflicted a penalty of one year’s confinement in the Reformatory, the minimum fixed by Section 1194, Kentucky Statutes.

On appeal two grounds are advanced for reversal of the judgment: (a) The indictment was fatally defective, because of the omission of what counsel conceives to be essential allegations; (b) the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict.

It is not necessary to set the indictment…