Tyree v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The indictment, in two counts, charged grand larceny and buying, receiving, concealing, .stolen property. Conviction was had under Count 2, the receiving stolen property count.

The state’s evidence tended to show that early Thursday morning, July 3, 1969, Mr. Robert Ryals, Andalusia, Alabama, discovered his shop had been broken into and about 800 pounds of magnet copper wire had been stolen. The wire was on spools and in five gallon buckets.

Late afternoon of July 3rd, the defendant was seen by one Glover Colvin sitting beside Stokes road, about five miles from Andalusia.…