Mason v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Judge.

The appellant, Louis Mason, was convicted of storehouse breaking, KRS 433.-190, and sentenced to one year in prison. He neither testified nor offered any other evidence in defense, but stood on a motion for a peremptory at the close of the state’s case. The only question is whether the evidence was sufficient to support a conviction. We think that it barely was.

The office of Commercial Credit Corporation at Paducah was forcibly entered during the night. When the employees ar- . rived for work the next morning they found it in a state of disarray and several items of property…