Taylor v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The appellant, Roscoe Taylor, seeks the reversal of a judgment convicting him of the crime of stealing chickens of the value of $2 or more, covered by section 1201c, Kentucky Statutes.

The prosecuting witness, Mrs. Kate "Watkins, testified that she' had a yellow Plymouth Rock hen with blue tail feathers and nine little chickens which she missed on a certain Monday morning- in June, 1930. On the following Wednesday, upon a pretext, she, accompanied by her daughter and a friend, visited the home of the appellant about a half mile away, and…