Conn v. State

Appellant, Conn, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Harrison County on an indictment charging him with knowingly having received stolen property, and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. We are compelled to reverse because of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States which establish that the first assignment of error hereinafter mentioned is well taken, and has. been so recognized by our legislature in- House Bill 193 of the General Acts of the Regular 1964 Session (amending Mississippi Code Annotated Section 2505 (1956), wherein authority is given to the courts under…