Callands v. Commonwealth

In the early morning of January 17, 1966, a cigarette vending machine belonging to Lynchburg V ending Company was stolen from the premises of the Holiday Inn, in the city of Lynchburg. A guest of the Inn,, awakened by the noise at about 5:30 a.m., saw two men placing an object in the trunk of a 1959 cream-colored Chevrolet automobile. The guest called the manager, who observed the Chevrolet going out of the parking lot without any lights and faster than normal. There was a large object sticking out of the back of the car so the lid of the trunk would not close.

The manager called police…