Hood v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

The grand jury of Laurel county returned an indictment against Oscar Hood and Earl Hopkins charging them with the crime of stealing chickens of the value of more than $2. It developed during the trial that Earl Hopkins was only 16 years of age and had not been carried before the county court of Laurel county as a juvenile offender, and the indictment was dismissed as to him. Oscar Hood was convicted and his punishment fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of one year.

The prosecuting witness, Mrs. Yirgie Quinby, testified that she…