Hopper v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Richardson

Affirming.

This appeal requires a review of a trial before a jury of David Hopper for the crime of “feloniously receiving stolen property of the value of about $400,” which, resulted in his conviction and the fixing of his punishment at one year in the state reformatory. His grounds of reversal are that (a) the indictment is defective; (b) the verdict is not sustained by the evidence; and (c) the court failed to instruct the jury properly.

The descriptive portion of the indictment charges the accused with receiving from “Ernest Chadwell and Eugene Hammack,…