Lanier v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is receiving and concealing stolen property, to-wit, 5 rolls of hardware cloth valued at more than fifty dollars; the punishment, six years.

Bob Ritchie, a service man for Southwestern Electric Power Company, testified that he was in charge of a company substation where hardware cloth was stored, that five rolls of hardware cloth were taken on the date in question without his permission, that one roll of the hardware cloth cost the company $33.40, and, further, that he later identified the hardware cloth in the jail yard.

Willtrout, who was named in the indictment as…