Glisper v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle —

Affirming.

The appellant, Eugene Glisper, alias Julian Gillespie, a man of color, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Fayette circuit court for the crime of horse-stealing, and his punishment fixed hy verdict of a jury and judgment of the court at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of four years. He was refused a new trial and has appealed.

The facts furnished hy the evidence are few and undisputed. ¡On a Sunday afternoon in October last one Ben Carter, a negro man in the employ of James Gay, a farmer of Woodford county, with Gay’s consent,…