Licette v. State

The defendant was tried and convicted for receiving stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen. The indictment contained a single count, which alleged that he, on the 7th .day of January, 1885, in the county of Bibb, “ did then and there unlawfully buy and receive from some person, to the grand jury unknown (so that he might be taken and prosecuted to conviction), twelve sides of meat worth $6.50 each, the same being the property of S. R. Jaques, the same having been feloniously stolen by some party unknown, said stealing of said meat being from a railroad car, after said thief or thieves had…