Reaves v. Commonwealth

Edwin L. Reaves, sometimes hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was indicted for buying and receiving an electric hammer and attachments thereto of the value of $75.00, knowing the same to have been stolen. Upon his plea of not guilty, he was convicted by a jury and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary. To the judgment entered according to the verdict we allowed this writ.

At the outset of the trial below, the defendant orally moved the court to quash the indictment against him on the ground of former jeopardy. In support of his motion, he tells us, in his brief, that ten…