Meath v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Error to review a judgment of the circuit court for St. Croix county. George Thompson, Circuit Judge. “August 3, 1920, one Vern Reynolds stole a Buick automobile at Menomonie, Dunn count)'-, Wisconsin. He drove the car to Glenwood city where he took with him one Higgins. The two drove the car toward New Richmond on the highway passing along the defendant’s home a short distance outside New Richmond.
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Error to review a judgment of the circuit court for St. Croix county. George Thompson, Circuit Judge. “August 3, 1920, one Vern Reynolds stole a Buick automobile at Menomonie, Dunn count)'-, Wisconsin. He drove the car to Glenwood city where he took with him one Higgins. The two drove the car toward New Richmond on the highway passing along the defendant’s home a short distance outside New Richmond. The defendant Meath was not at home at the time, and the two drove the car further and met defendant, who was driving his own automobile, and the two cars then went to Meath’s home and stopped on…
1Opinion of the CourtEsciiweiler, J.
The defendant in error was prosecuted and convicted for a violation of the following statute:
“Section 4417. Any person who shall buy, receive, conceal or aid in the concealment of stolen money, goods or property, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall receive the same punishment as is hereinbefore provided for the stealing of such money, goods or property; and in any prosecution for such offense it shall not he necessary to aver or prove that the person who stole the same has been convicted.”
*83By the express language of this statute an essential element of the offense is that the defendant…
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