Alexander v. Commonwealth

REED, Judge.

The sole issue raised on this appeal is whether the evidence for the prosecution sufficiently established the ownership and identity of property alleged to have been stolen to support a conviction for knowingly receiving the property in question.

The appellant, M. N. Alexander, as a result of a jury trial, was convicted of knowingly receiving stolen property (KRS 433.-290), and was sentenced to a term of two years in a penitentiary. The property that Alexander was accused of knowingly receiving was a quantity of coins described as “Mercury”1 dimes. The Commonwealth asserted that…