Liakas v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of receiving stolen property with a prison sentence not exceeding ten years in the State penitentiary.

The defendants were tried upon a two-count indictment (1) for the larceny of one suit of clothes of the value of $125, and (2) of receiving stolen property, one suit of clothes of the same value, knowing- the same to have been stolen.

The verdict of the jury is: “We the Jury find the defendant Dean Defort Liakas and Frank James Ells-worth guilty of receiving stolen property over sixty dollars as charged and fix their punishment at ten years in the…