State v. Berstein

JACK P. PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Defendant was found guilty on a charge by indictment of the grand jury of buying and receiving stolen property in the amount of value over $50.00, and his punishment was assessed by the jury at four years in the Department of Corrections. After his motion for new trial was overruled and allocution was granted, sentence on the verdict was pronounced by the trial court, and defendant duly appealed from his judgment of conviction.

The facts leading up to defendant’s trial and conviction are these: On March 15, 1961, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Langbein, 3876…