Harris v. State

This defendant was indicted for knowingly receiving stolen property. The indictment charged that the defendant received 1564 pounds of pecans from Willie Jones and Clinton Raines, who had obtained the nuts from Southland Pecan Company by burglary, and that Jones and Raines had entered pleas of guilty to the charge of burglary. The jury found the defendant guilty. He filed a motion for new trial which was overruled and he excepted,

1. Ground 1 of the amendment to the motion complains that the court erred in giving in charge the law with reference to burglary. Since the indictment against this…