Blue v. United States

HOOD, Chief Judge:

This appeal from a conviction on a charge of receiving stolen property 1 makes four claims of error. First, it is claimed that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain a verdict of guilty. There was evidence that appellant was in possession of a coat that had been recently stolen. Possession of property recently stolen, if not satisfactorily explained, permits the jury to infer that the person in possession knew it had been stolen. 2 Obviously the jury did not find appellant’s explanation satisfactory.

The second error claimed relates to the trial court’s refusal to…