Conley v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Stanley—

Affirming.

The appellant, Calvin Conley, has been found guilty of receiving and possessing stolen property, to wit, seven chickens, belonging to a neighbor, Mrs. J. E. Horton. The grounds upon which he hopes to secure a reversal of the judgment are that they were his own chickens; that there was no proof that he knowingly received stolen property, or that the chickens were actually stolen; and, further, that the evidence against him was obtained by an illegal search of his premises.

Section 1199 of the Statutes, as amended by Act-March 24, 1922 (Acts…