Steele v. State

This might he said to he a companion case of Steele v. State, 57 So. (2d) 572. In that case, Steele was convicted in Covington Comity on a charge of conspiring with others to injure, cheat and defraud the owner by means of taking, stealing and carrying away three head of cattle. In this case, he was convicted of having and receiving such cattle, and knowing the same to have been theretofore feloniously taken, stolen and carried away.

The Court observed in the opinion in that case that the testimony of the State, if true, warranted a charge either of grand larceny or receiving stolen property,…