Commonwealth v. Johnson

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Certifying the law.

Johnson was indicted in the Bracken circuit court, under sections 1201b and 1199, Kentucky Statutes, for the crime of knowingly receiving stolen goods, and on a trial before a jury was found not guilty. The Commonwealth prosecutes this appeal for a certification of the law. The facts as presented by the Commonwealth show that three boys at Augusta climbed on a railroad gon then in the possession of a common carrier, and being transported for delivery to a given consignee, and unloaded twenty-five or thirty bushels of coal for the purpose…