State v. Collins

Tbe offense of receiving stolen goods is set forth in G. S. N. C. 14-73. That statute in part reads: “If any person shall receive any chattel, property, money, valuable security or other thing whatsoever, tbe stealing or taking whereof amounts to larceny or a felony, either at common law or by virtue of any statute made or hereafter to be made . . .”

To convict the State must prove that the defendant, with felonious intent, received the goods, the property of another, knowing at the time that the same had been previously stolen or taken from the owner in violation of G. S. N. C. 14-71. An…