Davidson v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Turner,

Commissioner— Reversing.

Appellant was charged with grand larceny, committed by feloniously taking and stealing two bales of wire fencing from Marion Sledge, of greater value than $20.00, -with the felonious intention of converting the same to his own use and depriving Sledge of the same.

On his trial he was found guilty and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, and this appeal results.

The evidence discloses -that Sledge in 1925 bought several bales of wire and placed them in his barn lot,- and placed smaller wire around the stay wires of the bales for the purpose…