Watkins v. Commonwealth

BIRD, Judge.

Appellant, former clerk of the Glasgow Police Court, was indicted, tried, and convicted for misapplying funds belonging to the city in violation of KRS 434.020(1).

Reversal is sought solely upon the ground of erroneous instruction to the jury. The only instruction to which complaint is made reads as follows:

“Instruction No. I. If the jury shall believe from the evidence to the exclusion of any reasonable doubt that on or about the 2nd day of July 1955 that the Defendant, Jack Watkins, while acting as Clerk of the Glasgow Police Court, collected and received from Raymond Cook the…