Bower v. Commonwealth

STEWART, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Clinton John Bower, Jr., was convicted in the Meade Circuit Court of unlawfully taking a motor vehicle without the knowledge and consent of the owner and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. See KRS 433.220. This appeal is from the judgment entered.

Appellant was indicted in October, 1960, for the felonious taking of a 1958 Willys station wagon, commonly designated as a “jeep”, from the Sam Hicks Motor Company, herein called “the motor company”, then in business at Muldraugh in Meade County. The car was purportedly stolen, “or left the lot” of the owner,…