Schartau v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Malcom Irvin Schartau was convicted of receiving stolen property in the first degree and was sentenced, as a habitual offender with seven prior felony convictions, to life imprisonment. He raises three issues on appeal.

I

First, he claims that the State presented insufficient evidence of guilty knowledge, thus failing to satisfy the requirement of § 13A-8-16(a), Code of Alabama 1975, that a defendant know that the property has been stolen or have reasonable grounds to believe it has been stolen.

The property at issue was a mobile radio telephone stolen from a trailer used…