State v. Hoskins

The criminal offense of which defendant, appellant, stands convicted is creature of statute, G.S. 14-71, as amended by 1949 Session Laws, Chap. 145, Sec. 1, which declares in pertinent part that “if any person shall receive any . . . property . . . the stealing or taking whereof amounts to larceny . . . such person knowing the same to have been feloniously stolen or taken ... he shall be guilty of a criminal offense . . .”

And it is the holding of this Court that the inference or presumption arising from the recent possession of stolen property, without more, does not extend to the above…