Pendland v. Commonwealth

OSBORNE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment finding the appellants, Thamur E. Pendland and Leslie Bell, guilty of possessing marijuana contrary to the provisions of KRS 218.210 and fixing their punishment at three years in the penitentiary. We affirm the judgment.

Appellants Pendland and Bell, along with Pendland’s son Gary, seventeen years old, were seen by Jack Estill and Leo Cropper in the act of cutting hemp (marijuana) on Estill’s farm in Mason County. Estill blocked the gates, thus prohibiting them from taking their car out of the field, and called the sheriff. Gary Pendland entered…