Young v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Lewis:

Appellant was indicted for the offense denounced by Gen. Stat. (1881), Ch. 29, Art. 11, § 8, which is as follows: “Whoever shall receive any stolen goods, chattels, or other thing, the stealing whereof is punished as a felony or misdemeanor, knowing the same to be stolen, shall be liable to the same punishment to which the person stealing the same is by law subjected.”

R. A. Thornton, Z. Gibbons, for appellant. P. W. Hardin, for appellee.

Upon the trial the court below instructed the jury that they were authorized to find the defendant guilty if he knew,-or believed at the…