Evitts v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Stites

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Muhlenberg circuit court, under which appellant was sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary for the crime of knowingly receiving stolen property under section 1199 of the Kentucky Statutes.

The indictment charged appellant with having received a quantity of cigarettes of a value in excess of $20 from one Joe Lane. It further charged that the cigarettes in question had been stolen from a railroad car of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, which was a common carrier. No definite time was charged as…