Patterson v. Commonwealth

The plaintiff in error was tried on an indictment charging him with larceny of two radios, the property of C. R. Roberts, of the aggregate value of $82, was found guilty of grand larceny and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary. The refusal of the court to set aside the verdict of the jury as unsupported by the evidence and as against the weight of the evidence, is assigned as error.

It appears from the record that on the night of March 28, 1934, the storehouse of C. R. Roberts, situated in the town of Salem, Virginia, was broken into by James McFadden, Henry Taylor and Matthew…