State v. Crabbe

The evidence of the State tends to show that, on April 16, 1923, one H. J. Carlson, in the city of Burlington, Iowa, drove his Ford coupé to the Mercy hospital, where he parked the same, and that, after a visit to the hospital, he returned for his car, and it was gone. It was found about the first of May, in Galesburg, Illinois, in the possession of police, officers. The number had been changed, and it had no license plates.' It had been found by the officers in the possession of the defendant, who gave various inconsistent explanations of how he came into possession of it.

In the trial of the…