Botnick v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Clay

Reversing.

John Botnick challenges the regularity of a trial resulting in a one-year sentence for receiving stolen property.

The evidence is as follows: Mrs. Joe Dobos testified that on the night of November 9, 1934, her business establishment, located in the town of Cumberland, was broken into and three cases of whisky “worth about $150.00” were stolen. According to Joe Bolenski, who was working for appellant, “somebody stole the whiskey and they sell it to him. ’ ’’ He saw the whisky there. It was all kinds. John told him to sell it in a glass, and he…