Goodin v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Reversing.

Appellant was convicted in the Bell circuit court of breaking into a storehouse and prosecutes this appeal from the judgment imposing upon him as punishment one year’s confinement in the penitentiary. It is vigorously insisted for him that his conviction was had upon the testimony of an accomplice alone and that under the provisions of sections 241 and 242 of the Criminal Code the trial court should have directed a verdict of acquittal.

He was charged with having broken the storehouse of Dean & McGraffee. The two members of that firm…