Wedding v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

Ed Wedding has appealed from a judgment imposing upon him three years ’ confinement in the'penitentiary for .stealing chickens. 'He has staked his hope for reversal upon the failure of the court to direct the jury to acquit him. In a former appeal from a five year sentence for this same offense, this was one of his grounds for a reversal, and in 212 Ky. 571, 279 S. W. 981, we said:

“The evidence of appellant’s guilt was sufficient .to take the case to the jury.”

The evidence on this trial is substantially the same, and what was said in our…