Bolen v. State

RUSSELL, Judge.

OPINION

The appellant, Verne Bolen, was indicted for receiving stolen property of a value in excess of one hundred dollars, found guilty by a jury, and sentenced to five to ten years in the penitentiary.

We note at the outset that the trial court’s judgment was “guilty as charged for concealing stolen property”, an obvious error. The jury simply reported that it found the defendant guilty, and the charge was receiving. We modify the judgment to reflect that the conviction is for receiving stolen property of a value in excess of one hundred dollars.

The theory of the State was that…