Perkins v. State

This was an indictment for receiving and concealing stolen goods. Plea, not guilty. Verdict and judgment for the state.

*223Upon the trial, the state introduced one Hite, who tes3 tilled that one Brown, one Spencer, and himself, had stolen the goods specified in the indictment; and that the defendant, knowing the goods to have been stolen, received them into his possession and assisted in concealing them. Whereupon the defendant proved by other witnesses that said Hite had stated out of Court that he had made the charge against the defendant with the hope of a pardon, and that the defendant had…