Woodruff v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Oklahoma county of receiving stolen property and was sentenced to serve a term of four years in the state penitentiary.

The information charges in substance that on a named date defendant received from Pat Thompson and Roy Clayton, for a consideration of $2, an overcoat, knowing at the time the same to have been stolen. Roy Clayton and Pat Thompson testified they burglarized the house of one R. W. Ward and stole the overcoat in question and sold it to defendant. To show guilty knowledge they testified that…