Commonwealth v. Bethea

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal from judgment of sentence of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster County, by the defendant-appellant, Benjamin Franklin Bethea, Jr., after conviction by a jury of larceny of a motor vehicle; and from the denial of post-trial motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial.

A man discovered his pick-up truck missing from where he had parked it on South Marshall Street, Lancaster at about 2:30 a.m. on the morning of August 13, 1967. He immediately complained to the police and at about 3:15 a.m. the truck was spotted and stopped at Dauphin and Broad…