Johnson v. Commonwealth

EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Chief Justice.

Appellant was found guilty by a jury and was given four years in prison for breaking and entering into the One-Hour Cleaners and Laundry in Mayfield, Kentucky. The main stream of his defense is that he was too drunk to know what he was doing. Drawn in by the main stream are some claimed trial errors, which will be discussed later.

On February 10, 1968, at about 12:40 a. m., appellant was seen by a member of the Mayfield Fire Department inside the building in question. The fireman reported this to the police, who caught appellant “red handed” standing at the…