Johnson v. Commonwealth

CAMMACK, Chief Justice.

In Case No. 1, Johnnie Johnson is appealing from a judgment sentencing him to four years in prison on a charge of grand larceny. He insists the evidence for the Commonwealth was insufficient to warrant the submission of the question of his guilt to the jury.

In Case No. 2, Johnson is appealing from an order denying him a writ of coram nobis. Since we think his position is well taken on the appeal from the judgment sentencing him to prison, it is unnecessary for us to consider the coram nobis question.

The prosecuting witness, Henry Johnson, who was drunk, was placed in…