State v. Close

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant was convicted of the theft of an automobile. He assigns error on the insufficiency of the evidence, and questions the validity of the sentence.

On November 13, 1928, a Studebaker automobile, 1924 model, engine number 69461, belonging to O. F. Wright, of Hutchinson, was stolen. Early in February, 1929, such an automobile was discovered by local police officers in a garage behind defendant’s place *498of abode and eventually identified as the stolen car. It had been partly disguised by the nickeled work around the radiator having been…