Matthews v. State

JOHNSON, Judge.

The appellant, Joe Matthews, stands convicted in the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama, of buying, receiving or concealing seventy-six dozen cotton towels of the aggregate value of $170.00, the personal property of C. J. Gayfer and Company, a corporation. His punishment was fixed by the court at five years in the penitentiary.

The facts introduced at the trial below disclose that the appellant was arrested at one of his business establishments where four Mobile Police Officers had gone to investigate an allegedly stolen water heater. With permission of the appellant’s…