Rains v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Perry, Commissioner

Affirming.

The grand jury of Bell county indicted the appellant, Bill Rains, charging him with committing the offense of dwelling house breaking, denounced and defined by section 1162, Kentucky Statutes as a crime, punishable upon conviction by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than ten years.

Upon his trial on the charge, he was found guilty and his punishment fixed at confinement in the state reformatory for two years.

Prom the judgment entered on that verdict he has-appealed, asking a reversal on the ground that…