Satterly v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Judge.

Appellant, James Payton Satterly, was convicted of grand larceny with two previous felony convictions and sentenced to life imprisonment. KRS 433.220, 431.190. He contends the evidence was insufficient to justify a finding of guilt on the principal charge and that the instruction pertaining to the previous convictions was erroneous.

Satterly was jointly tried with Eugene Hardin, who had been separately indicted for the same offense of grand larceny and an alternative count for receiving stolen property. See Hardin v. Commonwealth, Ky., 437 S.W.2d 931, decided today. Briefly, the…