Ralya v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Chief Justice.

In January of 1972 the Muhlenberg Circuit Court Clerk discovered that 428 blank automobile operator’s licenses bearing the consecutive numbers 7512121 through 7512548 were missing from a box kept in a filing cabinet in his office.

In March of 1972 the appellant, Ralya, was arrested in Fayette County while in possession of an automobile bearing a 1972 Muhlenberg County license plate numbered 708-215. He was carrying on his person a Kentucky operator’s license numbered 7512329, one of those reported missing from the office of the Muhlenberg Circuit Court Clerk. At this…