Green v. Commonwealth

The plaintiff in error was convicted of robbing Mrs. Lillie Priddy, and sentenced to the penitentiary for eighteen years.

The petition for the writ of error is so inartificially drawn that it is difficult to say what errors are assigned. Giving the petitioner the benefit of all doubt on this question, he assigns as error that the verdict is contrary to the evidence, and possibly that there was error in not compelling the Commonwealth to produce a receipt for $2 from the A. & B. Clothing Company, given to the accused on the day of the alleged offense, and which he had on his person when…