Newton v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Turner

Affirming.

Appellant was indicted in the Daviess Circuit Court, charged with knowingly receiving stolen goods, and upon liis trial was found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he appeals.

The indictment against him is as follows, to-wit:

“The grand jury of Daviess County, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Eollie Newton of the crime of receiving stolen ■ property of greater value than $20.00, knowing the same to have been stolen at the time he received said property,…