McFarland v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

C. B. McFarland has been granted a belated appeal, pursuant to order of a federal court, from a judgment of September 20, 1968, sentencing him to a term of two years in the penitentiary on a conviction of knowingly receiving stolen property.

The evidence was that McFarland and a codefendant sold to one farmer four little pigs that had been stolen from another *122farmer. The defendant’s story was that they had purchased the pigs from one Eddy Moore, a stranger to them, on an occasion when they pulled Moore’s car from a ditch.

There is in the record an order reciting that on the…