PRUITT v. COMMONWEALTH


490 S.W.2d 486 (1972)

Sidney Evert PRUITT, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied March 2, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry W. Berry, Glasgow, for appellant.

Ed W. Hancock, Atty. Gen., Guy C. Shearer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.


CATINNA, Commissioner.

Sidney Evert Pruitt was convicted in the Cumberland Circuit Court of grand larceny. His punishment was fixed by a jury at imprisonment for one year. He seeks reversal of this conviction, contending that the lower court erred in overruling his motion for a directed verdict on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a verdict.

Pruitt, a sewing-machine salesman and part-time farmer, lived with his wife and children on a...

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