The People v. Manning

Roy Manning was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county. The indictment contained six counts. The first count charged larceny of an automobile. The second charged the defendant with buying, receiving, aiding and concealing a motor vehicle which had theretofore been stolen. The third charged the defendant did alter, destroy and deface the engine number of a motor vehicle and substitute another number in lieu of the original number on the engine. The fourth charged that the defendant did knowingly and unlawfully have the custody of an automobile whose engine number had been effaced and…