State v. Ebright

Defendant appeals from his conviction on one count of receiving stolen property. The issues raised by the appeal are whether the conviction was necessarily and impermissibly grounded upon evidence which violated the “inference upon an inference rule” and circumstantial evidence which reasonably supports a theory of innocence.

Under the first count of the indictment, defendant was accused of selling, on October 19, 1981, silverware he knew to have been stolen from James Mayer, while the second count charged that he made a similar sale on December 5,1981. The first count was dismissed by the…