Moynahan v. People

The plaintiff in error, hereafter called the defendant, was convicted of buying ores (known to have been stolen) from one Jones. The ore belonged to The Portland Gold Mining Company. Jones was the prosecuting witness, and testified that he was an ore sorter for The Portland Gold Mining Company; that, for a number of months, and at different times, he had stolen high grade ore from that company, and sold it to the defendant, who was an assayer and ore purchaser; that when he made the sales to the defendant, the latter made no inquiry of him as to what mine the ore came from, or who owned it,…