Wiggins v. State

OPINION

HUMPHREYS, Justice.

Defendants where charged in a two-count indictment with petit larceny and concealing stolen property. The jury expressly found both not guilty of petit larceny but guilty of concealing stolen property with a resulting punishment of ten months in the County Jail or County Workhouse. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court.

This Court granted certiorari to consider whether, under the facts of this case, the verdict is reversibly inconsistent. Defendants contend that the only factual issue in the case was proof of the theft, and that the…