Coplen v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson —

Reversing.

From a judgment sentencing him to the state reformatory for a period of three years and six months, for the crime of grand larceny, Jess Copien appeals, earnestly and strenuously insisting that the evidence is insufficient to authorize the submission of the case to the jury and to sustain its verdict.

A determination of these questions requires a review of the evidence, which is substantially as follows: The Bayou de- Chein Presbyterian Church, situated in or near “Water Valley,’’.Graves county, Ky., was the owner and in possession of two rugs…