State v. Kamen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment quashing an information in a criminal action.

The prosecution was instituted under the provisions of G. S. 1935, 21-549, providing:

“Every person who shall buy, or in any way receive any goods, money, rights in action, personal property, or any valuable security or effects whatsoever, that shall have been embezzled, taken or secreted, contrary to the provisions of the last four sections, or that shall have been stolen from another, knowing the same to have been so embezzled, taken or secreted, or stolen, shall…