Hatton v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Reversing.

Joyd Hatton was convicted of the crime of housebreaking and sentenced to a term of two years in the penitentiary.

As grounds for reversal, he urges that the trial, court erred in failing to instruct the. jury to find a verdict in his favor at the conclusion of the commonwealth’s evidence and that the court further erred in orally instructing the jury. The first ground is bottomed on the theory that there was no evidence introduced by the commonwealth to corroborate the testimony of the accomplice, Dalton, as required by section 241 of the…