State v. Bey

WEATHERBEE, Justice.

A Kennebec County jury found defendant guilty of grand larceny of a considerable quantity of lumber and plywood. There is no doubt but that his conviction rested upon an inference of guilt drawn from his possession, some 26 days after the theft, of similar quantities of similar lumber and plywood, thirteen pieces of which were determined by witnesses to be the identical pieces which had been stolen from the victim. Thus, the reliability of identification of this lumber as that which had been stolen is critical to the determination of this appeal and it and the several…