Broadus v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Judge.

The appellants, James Watkins (alias Doc Broadus) and wife, Hattie Watkins, were convicted on six counts of hog stealing and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment on each count, the sentences to run consecutively. KRS 433.250(2); RCr 11.04 (1). They appeal, contending that the trial court erred in permitting the introduction of evidence obtained under a search warrant that was never produced at the trial, in declining to require production of the warrant, and in instructing the jury.

At various times between September 1969 and March 1970 hogs were stolen from the farm of Bill…