Mansbach v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Reversing.

The appellant, Joe Mansbach, and Theodore Kaplan, appellant’s clerk and manager of his business in his ab sence, were jointly indicted by the Boyd county grand, jury, and in which they wqre charged with the offense • denounced by section 1199 of our present Statutes (Ky. Stats., Supp. 1928), i. e., of receiving stolen property' knowing it to have been stolen. The involved property as set out in the indictment consisted of a number of articles made of brass; but on the trial none of them was relied on, except a large brass bar, which the…