Perdew v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees —

Reversing.

Loren Perdew, Barlow Means, Porter Barnes, and Clifton York were indicted for unlawfully and feloniously confederating and banding themselves together for the purpose of doing a felonious act, and the indictment charged that in pursuance of said conspiracy they stole a lot of goods or merchandise of a greater value than $20, personal property of R. L. Higginbotham.

Higginbotham was a merchant in Albany, Ky., and. Perdew owned a small store at Alpha, twelve miles from Albany on the Monticello road. Higginbotham had ordered a bill of goods from the…