Wylie v. Commonwealth

Roy Dean Wylie appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of knowingly receiving stolen property and fixing his punishment at a year’s imprisonment.

Wylie, when apprehended by police officers in Lexington, was found to be in possession of a quantity of silver and a stereo set that had previously been stolen from Mrs. R. M. Gay. Wylie testified that he was moving the property from a motel room occupied by Larry Williams, an ae- quaintance, who had directed him to put it “underneath this trailer back behind the Continental Inn.”

Wylie asserts that his conviction of the…