State v. Shanahan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The defendant appeals from a conviction of grand larceny of a Ford automobile, stolen from the streets of Florence, in Marion county, on the evening of January 11, 1923. Six days after the theft, defendant was arrested in Wichita, Kan., in possession of the car. At that time the motor number of 6,663,263 had been filed from its block and the number 6,841,547 had been stenciled in its place; a green sun visor had been placed on the car; the regular steering wheel had been removed, and a special steering wheel installed in its place; also, a…