Commonwealth v. Phelps
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned in the county of Berkshire on January 8,1906, charging, in the first count, that George L. Phelps of Williamstown on December 15, 1904, at North Adams bought, received and aided in the concealment of three thousand yards of cloth of the value of fifteen cents a yard, the property of the Arnold Print Works and stolen from that corporation, well knowing the property to have been stolen, in the second count, that on February 15, 1905, the…
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Indictment, found and returned in the county of Berkshire on January 8,1906, charging, in the first count, that George L. Phelps of Williamstown on December 15, 1904, at North Adams bought, received and aided in the concealment of three thousand yards of cloth of the value of fifteen cents a yard, the property of the Arnold Print Works and stolen from that corporation, well knowing the property to have been stolen, in the second count, that on February 15, 1905, the defendant in like manner received three thousand yards of cloth, and, in the third count, that on May 29,1905, the defendant in…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
This is an indictment in three counts for receiving and aiding in the concealment of stolen goods. There was a verdict against the defendant on all of the counts, and the case is here on exceptions by him to the refusal of the judge to instruct the jury as requested.
Taking the exceptions which have been argued in the order of the requests to which they relate, the first was to the refusal of the judge to instruct the jury as follows: “1. That if the jury find that the defendant Phelps did not know that the goods had been stolen until after they had been shipped to Troy, Hew York, then his…
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