Wheeler v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

On the night of May 7, 1942, the storehouse of M. L. Crover in Somerset, Kentucky, was broken into and there was taken therefrom 165 men’s suits; about 50 men’s shirts; a number of ties, and a few pairs of shoes. Nine ■days thereafter appellant and defendant below, Roe Wheeler, was indicted jointly with others, in which they were accused of the breaking of the building and feloniously taking therefrom the above property, which is an offense-denounced by Section 1164 of Carroll’s Statutes, Section 433.190 of KRS. At his trial appellant was convicted…