State v. . Baker

There was evidence tending to show that the cow of R. A. Parker was stolen from his barn at Conetoe, Edgecombe County, on Thursday night, 28 October, 1937, and that the cow was found in the possession of the defendant, near Goldsboro, "Wayne County, on Wednesday, 3 November, 1937. The defendant testified that he bought the cow from the truck of an unknown man just outside of Smithfield, Johnston County, on Monday, 1 November, 1937.

The defendant assigns as error the following excerpt from his Honor’s charge:

“Now, gentlemen, there is a rule of law with respect to recent possession of stolen…