State v. Green

The defendant has appealed from a conviction of the crime of receiving and concealing stolen property. His only assignment of error relates to an alleged fatal defect in the indictment. The description of the property in the indictment is “certain hand tools, a more particular description of Avhich property is to the grand jury unknown,” folloAved by the name of the OAvner, Robert Williams.

There was evidence that in the early morning of October 1, 1965, a quantity of garage tools was stolen from a gasoline service station owned by Robert Williams and that shortly aftenvards the defendant was…