Adkins v. Commonwealth

The defendant, John P. Adkins, on his trial before a jury, was convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary in accordance with the verdict. Under his assignments of error he contends that the evidence was not sufficient to support the verdict and that the court erred in rejecting certain evidence offered by him and in giving certain instructions for the Commonwealth.

He was charged with stealing walnut logs cut from three walnut trees standing on a tract of land of about 350 acres owned by John R. Francisco in Goochland county. Code § 18-168.

Francisco testified…