Collins v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court at Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKinstby. The prisoner, George Collins, was indicted for receiving stolen goods, tbe personal property of one Anderson, knowing them to be stolen; was convicted, and sentenced to three years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the City Court at Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKinstby. The prisoner, George Collins, was indicted for receiving stolen goods, tbe personal property of one Anderson, knowing them to be stolen; was convicted, and sentenced to three years imprisonment in the penitentiary. During his trial, he reserved the following exceptions to the rulings of the presiding judge : “ The State proved, that one Moses Anderson, before the finding of the indictment, lost from his store-house certain articles of property, amongst which were those mentioned in the indictment, and which the…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, J.—
The charge of the court, to which objection is here urged, throwing it into the form of a charge given, may be thus stated, without doing violence to any of its terms:
“If you find the goods had been stolen, then, on the question of knowledge, I charge you that, if you find the *437defendant received and concealed the goods, and received them under such circumstances that any reasonable man of ordinary observation would have known that they W’ere stolen; and if you find that the defendant knew of those circumstances, then you are authorized to find that the defendant knew they had been…
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