Hunt v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

The appellant, Ernest Hunt, was jointly indicted with Truman Adkins and Junior Smith by the grand jury of Pike county at its September, 1940, term, charging them with the crime (denounced by Section 1164, Kentucky Statutes) of unlawfully and feloniously breaking into and entering the oil and millhouse of Miles Ply-male, with the felonious intent to steal and carry away gas therefrom. Upon his separate trial on the charge (had on May 9, 1941), appellant was convicted and sentenced to one year’s confinement in the state penitentiary, the minimum…