Commonwealth v. Gaines

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

This is an appeal from judgment of sentence on a conviction of conspiracy to commit burglary. The defendant, Gaines, was indicted with David Dabney and William Fields on several bills of indictment charging criminal conspiracy. Dabney and Fields entered pleas of guilty and testified for the Commonwealth. Gaines, after waiving a jury trial, was convicted by the trial judge and sentence imposed. This appeal involves only an indictment charging conspiracy to burglarize the residence of Harry Kanefsky.

Kanefsky testified that his home had been broken into on February 20, 1949…