State v. Gilbert

MR. JUSTICE FREEBOURN:

Defendant was charged with the crime of receiving stolen property, knowing it to have been stolen. From a conviction upon such charge he appeals.

The information charges that defendant on or about November 28, 1950, in Blaine county, “for his own gain and to prevent the owners thereof from again possessing their own property, did receive certain personal property,” three cowhides, bearing-certain brands, “which certain personal property had been previously stolen, the said Andrew Gilbert then and there knowing the same to have been * m * stolen.”

The charge is brought…