Mills v. Commonwealth

SIMS, Chief Justice.

Henry Mills was convicted of grand larceny and his punishment was -fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year. In seeking to reverse the judgment he insists the court erred: 1. In not directing a verdict in his behalf; 2. in admitting incompetent evidence against him.

Mills operated a farm and ran a country store in a remote section of Laurel County near the post office of* Fletcher, some 10 or 12 miles from Corbin. Madison Parker, 77 years of age, had a room and boarded in the Mills home for some twenty months '■before it was robbed on March 25, 1949, and $2800…