State v. White

The state has appealed from a judgment quashing an indictment. The accusation is that the defendant “did unlawfully, willfully, knowingly and maliciously buy and have in his possession one and one-half bags of rough rice, knowing the said one and one-half bags of rough rice to have been unlawfully and feloniously stolen, taken and carried away from the box ears of the Louisiana Western Railroad Company, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc.

The crime intended to be charged is denounced by section 832 of the Revised Statutes, viz.:

“Whoever shall receive, have or buy any goods, chattels,…