Ball v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The Harlan county grand jury returned an indictment against appellant and defendant below, Andy Ball, accusing Mm of tbe offense denounced in Section 1199 of Baldwin’s 1936 Revision of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes, i. e., that of receiving stolen property, knowing it to have been stolen, and that it was $20.00 or more in value, thus charging a felony under the statute. The indictment stated that the stolen property so received consisted of “copper wire,” and that it had been stolen (charged in proper language) from the Cornet-Lewis Coal Company. At…