The People v. Sovetsky

A jury in the criminal court of Cook county found John Sovetsky guilty of receiving stolen property of a value in excess of fifteen dollars. He was sentenced to the penitentiary and prosecutes this writ of error for a review of the record.

On the morning of June 2, 1928, Frank Post, an employee of the Marks Express and Teaming Company, a partnership engaged in the business of hauling goods and chattels for hire, drove a truck from the company’s warehouse in Chicago, loaded with merchandise collected from a number of shippers and consigned to various merchants in the city. As he reached a point…