Hutchinson v. Commonwealth

The plaintiff in error, Lash Hutchinson, hereafter called the accused, was convicted by a jury in the Corporation Court of the city of .Lynchburg, on an indictment charging him, Thomas Rucker (alias Thomas Ruffin), John Henry Garland, William Jones and five others with the larceny of five one thousand dollar bonds of the Third Liberty Loan issue, and given four years in the penitentiary. The trial court sentenced him accordingly and the case is here upon a writ of error to that judgment.

On June 25, 1921, the runner for the First National Bank of Lynchburg went to the post office of that city…