Slusher v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Reversing.

The appellants, Roy Slusher and Jim Gross, were, indicted by the grand jury of Leslie county, Ky., for stealing a hog, charged to be of the value of more than $4, belonging to Alex Nantz, the punishment for which is fixed by section 1196, Baldwin’s 1936 Revision of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes, which reads as follows:

“If any person shall steal a hog of the value of four dollars or more he shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five-years.”

Upon trial on this charge, the defendants were convicted and sentenced to…