Fletcher v. Commonwealth

W. A. Fletcher was jointly indicted with McKinley Smith- and tried.under an indictment charging him with unlawfully and feloniously breaking into and entering a certain storehouse, the property of Mrs. Martha Thompson, and stealing wheat therefrom of the value of $70. The jury found him guilty of grand larceny and fixed his punishment at one year in the penitentiary. The trial court overruled a motion for a new trial and sentenced accused in accordance with the verdict.

From the standpoint of the Commonwealth, the evidence-showed, or tended to show, the following facts:

*1009The accused and his…