Commonwealth v. Frankina

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The appellant, a driver-salesman of a drug company, was charged with, and convicted of, receiving stolen goods, to wit, a number of bottles of sulfadiazine tablets. In this appeal, which followed the imposition of sentence, he claims that the conviction cannot stand as there was no evidence adduced showing that the tablets received by him were stolen, or that he knew they were stolen, and further that the trial judge, sitting without a jury, immediately after announcing the verdict of guilty, committed error in referring adversely to his failure to take the witness…