Fletcher v. State

Appellant was charged by affidavit with the crime of receiving stolen property under §10-8017, Burns’ 1956 Repl. [1960 Supp.] Acts 1.959, ch. 292, §4, p. 741. The case was heard by the Allen Circuit Court without the intervention of a jury, with a judgment of guilty being entered against appellant. Appellant prosecutes this appeal from that judgment.

The State’s chief witness in the trial below was one Clinton Clark, the confessed thief of the stolen property. The evidence most favorable to the State is that Clark stole or, in his words, “carried away” a builder’s transit level from the Purdue…