Cochran v. State

George Coohran prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of -conviction against him for the crime of receiving stolen property.

His sole reliance for a reversal of the judgment is that the circuit court erred in not sustaining a demurrer to the indictment. The indictment was returned under § 2493 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest, which reads as follow's:

“Whoever shall receive or buy any stolen goods, money -or chattels, knowing them to be -stolen, with intent to deprive the true owner thereof, -shall, upon conviction, be punished as is, or may be, by law prescribed for the larceny of such goods…