Thompson v. State

A jury convicted appellant, Roy Thompson, of the crime of receiving stolen property, (§ 3144, Pope’s Digest), and fixed his punishment at a term of one year in the state penitentiary. Prom the judgment on the verdict comes this appeal.

The information charged that appellant in “November, 1943, in Greene county, Arkansas, did unlawfully and feloniously receive two Firestone automobile tires valued at $60, the same being the property of Fountain Ladd, for the purpose of depriving the true owner of his property therein, knowing at the time that they were stolen property. ”

The testimony most…