Sarver v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

George Sarver appeals from a judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment under the habitual criminal law, pursuant to a verdict finding him guilty of grand larceny and finding that he twice had been convicted previously of felonies. Some of his grounds of error relate to the trial of the immediate offense and some to the matter of previous convictions.

Sarver was charged with having stolen a truck load of beer. Upon information received from one Carl Arnold the police had searched a residence occupied by Sarver and one Priscilla Alexander and had found 99 cases of the…