Wright v. Commonwealth

The defendant, Aubrey Wright, was indicted for unlawfully and feloniously stealing, taking and carrying away on March 8, 1953, $590.00 in money, “being the lawful money and currency of the United States of America, * * * and property of one John W. Pick.” Upon his trial he pleaded not guilty but the jury returned a verdict finding him guilty of grand larceny as charged in the indictment, and fixed his punishment at one year in the penitentiary. A motion to set aside the verdict on the grounds that it was “contrary to the law and evidence and without evidence to support it,” was overruled and…