Shoop v. State

Appellant was charged in the Circuit Court with the crime of receiving stolen property in two informations filed by the prosecuting attorney on May 31, 1945. In the first information it was charged that appellant, on March 15, 1945, received four cases of spinach of the value of $10, the property of Joe 'Salsman, doing business as the Arkansas Canning Company, knowing said property to be stolen. The second information accused appellant of receiving eight cases of spinach on May 27, 1945, in the same manner. The cases were consolidated for trial. The court instructed the jury that a…