Cuilla v. State

PBENDEBGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of receiving and concealing stolen property worth $15, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $100 and six months in jail.

The statute is: If any person shall receive or conceal property which has been stolen, knowing it to have been so acquired, he shall he punished the same as if he had stolen the property. (P. C., art. 1349.).

It is not necessary for a person to be guilty under this statute that he shall both receive and conceal, but the offense is, if he shall do either—receive it or conceal it, knowing at the time that it was stolen.…