The People v. Sovetsky

Plaintiff in error, John Sovetsky, was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of the crime of receiving stolen property and sentenced to the penitentiary.

About one o’clock A. M. June 7, 1925, four police officers who were passing in an automobile saw a truck in the alley at the rear of Sovetsky’s store, in the city of Chicago. They drove into the alley to investigate and found two trucks there, both loaded with cases of cigarettes. About fifty cases had been removed from one truck and placed in Sovetsky’s garage. As the police approached two men ran away. In the garage they found…