Mason v. State

The defendant was- charged, by information in the district court of Tulsa county, with the crime of receiving stolen property. He was convicted and has appealed to this court. The first assignment of error is that the court erred in certain instructions given to the jury, being. No. 5 and No. 7, which are as follows:

“No. 5. The defendant, for his defense to the charge contained in the information in this case says that he is not guilty; in other words, that he did not know the property to be stolen at the time he purchased it; and that the purchase of the property was not made in Tulsa…