State v. Keays

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of Blaine county, and from an order denying defendant a new trial. Roy H. Keays was convicted under section 11388, Revised Codes 1921, of the crime of receiving stolen property, knowing the same to have been stolen. The property involved is described in the information as a gray mare S branded— (S bar X) on the right shoulder, the property of x one Ben Davis.

The animal was stolen by one James Kirwan and delivered to the stockyards at Chinook on January 2, 1933. On the next day Keays went to Chinook, either by car with Kirwan or on the…