Ray v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 40 — INDICTMENT APPEAL EROM GREENUP CRIMINAL COURT. CITED General Statutes, section 4, article 6, page 326. Wharton’s Amer. Crim. Law, sec. 364. 2 lb., sec. 1585. 1 Met. 13, Thompson v. Commonwealth. 3 Greenleaf’s Ev., sections 74, 75. 9 Bush, 150, Cunningham v. Commonwealth. CITED General Statutes, section 4, article 6, chapter 29.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Lindsay
Tbe terms “warehouse” and “storehouse,” as used in the 4th section of the 6th article of chapter 29, General Statutes, mean any house, not an office, or a shop, or a room in a steam or other boat, in which goods, wares, and merchandise are usually deposited for safe keeping or for sale; and farming *398implements and products are to be deemed goods within the meaning of the statute.
The uncontradicted proof of the commonwealth shows that the house described in the indictment as a “warehouse” was a granary, built and used for keeping and preserving farming utensils, etc. Hence the circuit judge did…
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