Suggs v. State

The Code declares: “If any person shall buy or receive any goods, chattels, money, or other effects that shall have been stolen or feloniously taken from another, knowing the same to be stolen or feloniously taken, such person shall be an accessory after the fact, and shall receive the same punishment as would be inflicted on the person convicted of having stolen or feloniously taken the property.” § 26-2620. And “If the principal thief can not be taken, so as to be prosecuted and convicted, the person buying or receiving any goods, chattels, money, or efCects stolen or feloniously taken by…