Lovan v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

Hallie Lovan and Carl Wedding were jointly indicted for the crime of grand larceny. In the second connt of the indictment, it was charged that Lovan had been convicted of felony twice before the present prosecution. On his separate trial he was convicted and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment under the habitual criminal statute. Ky. Stats, sec. 1130.

He first insists that the trial court erred in overruling his motion for a directed verdict of acquittal, since the only witness whose testimony tended to connect him with the crime was an…