State v. Goffstein

Appellant was convicted of the crime of receiving stolen property, to-wit, eighteen batteries of the value of more than $30, knowing same to have been stolen, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in the penitentiary and has appealed. By his brief here he presents two questions: First, the sufficiency of the evidence and, second, certain matters pertaining to the qualification of the jury.

Fifty Willard batteries, of the approximate wholesale value of $5 each, were stolen on or near December 1, 1934, from the Central Battery Company, Inc., in St. Louis. The place was burglarized and the…