Winfield v. State

The plaintiff in error, Neal Win-field, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Pontotoc county of the crime of receiving stolen property and sentenced to serve a term of one year’s imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

The facts ale substantially as follows: Winfield was the owner and operator of a restaurant in the city of Ada, on West Main-street. The evidence shows that on the date alleged in the information he purchased four buckets of lard from a couple of boys of the age of 15 years. Further, the record discloses that Winfield had been in the habit of…