State v. Dunn

-The appellant was charged by indictment with a violation of Section 5080 of the Code of 1924. That section, so far as here material, is as follows:

“No person shall: * * * Possess a motor vehicle the serial or engine number of which is defaced, altered, or tampered with.”

Section 5081 provides punishment by imprisonment or the imposition of a fine for a violation of the preceding section.

I. By requested instructions, which were refused, and by exceptions to the instructions given to the jury, the question is presented whether knowledge on the part of one in possession of a motor vehicle of the…