People v. Oblaser

The respondent was convicted of the offense-of receiving stolen property, consisting of a revolver. The owner, a woman, left her house during the afternoon, the doors being locked. On her return she found her pocketbook upon the stand, and money that it had contained was gone. That evening she missed her revolver, *581which had been kept in the stand drawer. She could not ¡say when she saw it last, but she and her husband testified to having seen it within a few days. Ten days later, the respondent was arrested, and a revolver was found under his pillow, which complainant identified as hers. The…