State v. Missio

The indictment in this case charges the defendant “with unlawfully, feloniously, and fraudulently receiving, buying, concealing, and aiding in concealing four boxes of tobacco of the value of $15 per box, the proper goods and chattels of the Southern Railway Co., a corporation chartered by law, which had been before, as he, the defendant, then and there well knew, felo-niously and fradulently taken, stolen, and carried away from the said Southern Railway Co., with, the intent feloniously and fraudulently to deprive-the true owner thereof.”

There was a plea of not guilty and a trial,…