State v. Flint

Gerald Flint was found guilty of “grand larceny by possession” of two stolen Winchester rifles. The information, based upon ROW 9.54.010(5), 1 charged that Flint “with intent to deprive and defraud the owner thereof, willfully, unlawfully and feloniously did then and there receive and aid in concealing and withholding [the rifles] . . . knowing said property to have been stolen, . . .”

Flint’s principal assignment of error is that evidence was admitted which established that the rifles found in his possession were, the loot of a recently perpetrated burglary. The evidence could…