Arnivan v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appeal is from a jail sentence of thirty days on a charge of receiving and concealing stolen property.

The complaint and information charge appellant with having received and concealed bicycle parts of the value of $15.00 from Jesse Edgar Carter, knowing that same had been stolen and that the true owner was John Edward Carnes. The case was tried to the court without a jury. Several questions are discussed in the appeal but only one will be considered at length in this opinion.

It appears that the Carter boy and his companion were apprehended by an officer; that they…