State v. Taylor

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Justice.

The defendant, Richard D. Taylor, was convicted by a jury in the Superior Court pursuant to a criminal information which charged him with knowingly receiving a stolen chattel with a value in excess of $500, to wit, a 1978 Mercury Cougar XR7, in violation of G.L.1956 (1969 Reenactment) § 11-41-2, punishable under § 11-41-5. 1 On appeal the defendant makes the following assignments of error: that the trial justice erred in her instructions to the jury concerning the statutory presumption of knowledge in respect to stolen goods 2 and in defining reasonable doubt. The…