State v. Hatch

Marvin Hatch was convicted of that variety of larceny generally described as “receiving stolen property.” 1 Hatch testified that he was a shingle broker and a manufacturer of red cedar shims. The information charged that Hatch, with intent to deprive the owner thereof, “did . . . receive or aid in concealing and withholding . . .” seven squares of 24-inch cedar shakes and 141 bundles of 16-inch cedar shakes which he knew to have been wrongfully appropriated.

The shakes had been stolen from a shingle mill, and some of them were, on the following day, traced to Hatch’s place of business. Hatch…