Shanks v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Dietzman

—Affirming.

Appellant was convicted of the offense denounced iby section 1164 of the Statutes and sentenced to serve ■one year in the penitentiary.

The sole ground argued in. brief for reversal is • 'that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict. The commonwealth showed that the office of the sheriff' of Union county was broken into and a quantity of' whisky and a shotgun taken therefrom. Later this, shotgun was found in the possession of Ernest Tudor, who testified that he got it from Hopewell Hancock,, who in turn, testified that he…