Wiley v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Alcorn c'ounty. Hoist. 0.1*. Long, Judge. Rich Wiley was convicted of burglary, and he appeals. It is recent possession of stolen goods that raises a reasonable presumption of a person’s guilt in whose possession the stolen goods are found.
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Appeal from circuit court, Alcorn c'ounty. Hoist. 0.1*. Long, Judge. Rich Wiley was convicted of burglary, and he appeals. It is recent possession of stolen goods that raises a reasonable presumption of a person’s guilt in whose possession the stolen goods are found. Counsel for appellee admits that the above statement of the law is correct but argues, that the following charge, “The court charges the jury for the state that the possession of stolen goods which have been taken from a burglarized building, not satisfactorily explained is prima-facie evidence of both the burglarly and the…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
Appellant, Rich Wiley, was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Alcorn county on a charge of burglarizing the storehouse of C. A. Turner & Son in the city of Corinth and stealing therefrom one pair of shoes, from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal.
The storehouse of C. A. Turner & Son, merchants, in the city of Corinth, was burglarized on the night of February 10, 1921, and there was stolen therefrom six pairs of W. L. Douglas shoes. The shoes which were stolen had been left, when the store was closed on the evening of February 10, 1921, setting just inside the plate glass…
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