Caudill v. Commonwealth

MORRIS, Commissioner.

Appellant stands convicted of knowingly receiving stolen property of more than $20 value, KRS 433.290, his punishment being fixed at one year’s imprisonment, the minimum under KRS 433.220. Waiving other grounds set up in his motion for a new trial, he contends that the court was in error in overruling his motion for a favorable directed verdict, made at the close of the Commonwealth’s evidence and renewed at the close of the trial. It is argued that the Commonwealth failed to prove that the articles alleged to have been stolen from Mullins, the chief prosecuting witness,…