Wright v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Logan

Reversing.

Appellant was charged by indictment with the offense of chicken stealing. The evidence _showed that J. R. Hair had lost chickens on two occasions. He found the chickens with a poultry dealer nearby. The dealer bought the chickens in two lots from appellant. Appellant testified that he purchased the chickens from men on a boat going down Cumberland river, but he also-told a different story about it on different occasions. He was corroborated in his claim that he bought the chickens from the men on the boat, but the corroboration was not strong: There…