Shephard v. Van Doren

The defendant in this case throughout the trial maintained that Leo Parks bought an engine numbered 1392476 from O. B. Thompson and had that placed in the Chevrolet car involved in this case. The counsel for the defendant-appellant, while Carl A. Johnson was on the stand, stated: (Tr. 117) -“If the court please Mr. Johnson is the man who bought this car and sold it to Mr. Van Doren, and he is the man that will have to pay Mr. Van Doren for the value of it.”

Johnson testified: “There wasn’t any changed numbers on the car; here’s the motor he bought and put in there,” and that he knew Leo Parks,…