Bell v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Selma City Court. Heard before Hon. J. W. Mabry. Walter Bell was convicted of receiving stolen property, and he. appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. The following charges were refused the defendant ;• (1) “I charge you that if you believe the evidence in this case, you must acquit the defendant.”
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Appeal from Selma City Court. Heard before Hon. J. W. Mabry. Walter Bell was convicted of receiving stolen property, and he. appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. The following charges were refused the defendant ;• (1) “I charge you that if you believe the evidence in this case, you must acquit the defendant.” (13) “I charge you that under the evidence you cannot fix the value of the property received by the defendant at exceeding $15.” (11) ‘I charge you that there is no evidence in this case that the defendant knew that the goods received by him had been stolen from a…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
We are not able to affirm, as matter of law, that there was no evidence tending to show that the meat stolen, if there was any meat stolen, was shipped by Morris & Co., of St. Louis. The evidence, without conflict, shows that Morris & Co. placed a lot of meat at St. Louis, Mo., consigned to parties in Faunsdale and Demopolis, Ala., in a box car of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad; that, when the car, en route to Faunsdale and Demopolis, reached Selma, Dallas county, Ala., it was in apparent good order, with its seals intact; that when the car, the next day, left Selma its seals…
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