Chaney v. Commonwealth

STEWART, Judge.

Harlan Chaney was convicted of the offense of grand larceny in violation of KRS 433.220 and sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary. He appeals urging these grounds for reversal: (1) The court wrongfully refused to continue the case for reasons more fully set out hereinafter; and (2) the court did not instruct the jury on the whole law of the case, because it failed to give an accomplice instruction.

Chaney, having been indicted for stealing a shotgun valued at more than twenty dollars, was tried on the 6th day of the March 1956 term of the Breathitt Circuit Court and,…