Cox v. State

The defendant, Andy Cox, was charged in the district court of Pontotoc county with the crime of receiving stolen property, was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve two years in the State Penitentiary and to pay a fine of $250, and has appealed.

It is contended that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the judgment of conviction and that the verdict of the jury is excessive and the result of passion and prejudice.

The proof of the state shows that the defendant and his brother, Marvin Cox, owned and operated a junk yard at Fittstown. Marvin Cox had left to go to Illinois to work in the oil…