Taylor and Martin v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

J. 0. Taylor and S. Martin were indicted and convicted in the Whitley circuit court of the crime of stealing chickens, the property óf J. L. Duncan, of the value of $20 or more, and their punishment was fixed at two years’ imprisonment. They appeal.

The only grounds relied on for reversal of the judgment are: (1) The testimony of the accomplice, Charles Parrott, was not sufficiently corroborated. (2) The court did not properly instruct the jury on this question.

The commonwealth proved by Duncan tbat he lived about a mile from Woodbine and was…