People v. Salata

Defendant raises three issues on this appeal, but we treat only two of them:

A. Where defendant was charged with receiving and concealing stolen property, did the trial court err in permitting testimony concerning defendant’s brother’s subsequent purchase of a similar automobile from the same seller who sold the stolen auto to defendant and testimony concerning the alleged theft of defendant’s brother’s car the day after the stolen car was impounded by police? We find that the admission of such testimony was error.

B. Did the people produce sufficient evidence of guilty knowledge where…