BYRD v. COMMONWEALTH


283 S.W.2d 191 (1955)

Roscoe BYRD, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

October 14, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lyttle & White, John M. Lyttle, Manchester, for appellant.

J. D. Buckman, Jr., Atty. Gen., Zeb A. Stewart, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


MONTGOMERY, Judge.

Roscoe Byrd and Ralph Byrd were indicted for grand larceny. They were charged with stealing a Guernsey cow from Bennie Dee. On a separate trial, Roscoe Byrd was found guilty and his sentence fixed at one year's confinement in the state reformatory, from which judgment he has appealed.

The grounds urged for reversal are: (1) failure to prove the venue of the prosecution; (2) insufficiency of the evidence; and (3) improper argument of the...

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