Hall v. State

CATES, Judge.

This appeal was submitted January 14, 1965.

Hall appeals from a conviction of receiving stolen goods for which he was sentenced to serve ten years, the maximum. See Code 1940, T. 14, §§ 331 and 338.

I

The night of October 7-8, 1963, thieves got in Metzger’s Department Store in Mobile. They entered by suborning a locksmith’s helper.

Missing were, inter alia, shoes and from the store’s safe a diamond ring belonging to Mr. Albert Metzger.

Hall was arrested wearing the ring and a pair of shoes resembling a missing pair of “Bostonian” shoes. He claimed to have bought the ring from a man in…