Cornwell v. Commonwealth

CATINNA, Commissioner.

Jerry Don Cornwell was convicted in the McCracken Circuit Court of storehouse *735breaking. His punishment was fixed by a jury at imprisonment for five years. He seeks reversal of his conviction, alleging that there was not sufficient evidence of his guilt to take the case to the jury.

In the early morning of February 13, 1972, a police officer on patrol duty noticed that the door of a building housing Yopp Seed Company had been broken down. He saw a car across the street from the store with its lights on. As he started to check the car, it began to move and passed him going…