Case Name: Shewmaker v. Commonwealth
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1939-03-14
Citations: 277 Ky. 401
Docket Number: 
Parties: Shewmaker v. Commonwealth.
Judges: K. S. Alcorn, Judge.
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 277
Pages: 401–401

Head Matter:
Shewmaker v. Commonwealth.
March 14, 1939.
K. S. Alcorn, Judge.
J. WALTER HARDESTY, CHARLES S. MATHERLY and ROY E. GRAVES for appellant.
HUBERT MEREDITH, Attorney General, and WM. F. NEIUL Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion of the Court by
Stanley, Commissioner
Affirming.
John Shewmaker appeals from a judgment of conviction of grand larceny and a sentence of two years* imprisonment.
The indictment charges the appellant, his brothers, Herbert, Hobert and Henry Shewmaker, and Noah Shepherd, with the crime. It crudely, and perhaps insufficiently, charges the other three with aiding and abetting Herbert Shewmaker and Noah Shepherd in its commission.
The indictment is fatally defective in that it does not charge that the taking of the property was against the will or without the consent of the owner. Page v. Commonwealth, 235 Ky. 657, 32 S. W. (2d) 17; Maggard v. Commonwealth, 257 Ky. 414, 78 S. W. (2d) 815; Cohan v. Commonwealth, 262 Ky. 80, 89 S. W. (2d) 872.
There is no need to express an opinion as to the sufficiency of the evidence of guilt to take the case to the jury or to sustain the verdict.
Judgment reversed.