Brock v. Commonwealth

HILL, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of knowingly receiving stolen property and given two years in the State Reformatory. His appeal relies on three alleged errors for a reversal. They are (1) failure of the trial court to sustain motion for continuance; (2) keeping him imprisoned 14 days before giving him an examining trial; and (3) admitting evidence of other criminal acts than those charged in the indictment, and failure of the trial court to admonish the jury on such evidence.

On June 7, 1963, the Grosscuth Distillery Company of Jefferson County was robbed of 235 cases of pint whiskey, 2…