Pruitt v. Commonwealth

WADDILL, Commissioner.

The appellant, Richard Pruitt, was convicted of the offense of carrying concealed a deadly weapon, to-wit, a pistol, and sentenced to a term of two years in prison. KRS 435.230. The principal ground urged for reversal of the judgment is that the evidence which connected him with the crime was obtained by an unlawful search.

It appears from the evidence of Harry Ashby and James Hunton, night police officers of the city of Bowling Green, that on the night of April 15, 1954, at about 3:30 A.M., while on duty in a police car at the intersection of Tenth and Adams Streets,…