Terrell v. Commonwealth

OPINION op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

Oil the night of August 30, 1933, the store of A. L. Coleman & Co. in Frankfort was broken into and 18 cases of cigarettes, each case containing approximately 50 cartons, were stolen. Between midnight and morning following this breaking, the appellant, who conducted a small grocery store and poolroom on the Versailles Pike just outside the city of Frankfort, was awakened by a man named Edmund Vogler, who stated that he had in his automobile some cigarettes which he wished to sell to the appellant. Appellant thereupon went down to the door and…