State v. Thomas

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Defendant Lowell Thomas appeals from his convictions by a Superior Court (Kenne-bec County) jury on two separate indictments, tried together, for receiving stolen property, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 359(1) (Supp. 1980). Each of the indictments alleged that defendant, knowing the items to have been stolen or believing they had probably been stolen, had received, retained, or disposed of the property of another: in one instance, two shotguns, and in the other, a “spiking hammer.” Defendant contends on appeal that he should be given a new trial because 1) one of the jurors who sat…