Horn v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

Appellant, John Horn, was indicted by the grand jury of Estill county wherein he was accused of the offense denounced in Section 1164 of Baldwin’s 1936 Bevision of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes; i. e., feloniously breaking and entering the storehouse of the Petroleum Exploration (presumably a corporation) with intent to steal therefrom. At his trial, under a plea of not guilty, he was convicted and given the minimum punishment of confinement in the State penitentiary for one year. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and from the verdict of…