The People v. Rife

Mr. Justice. Thompson

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff in error, Noah D. Rife, and his wife, Mabel, operators of a junlc yard in the city of Danville, were jointly indicted at the January term, 1941, of the circuit court of Vermilion county, charged in three counts with receiving, buying and aiding in concealing 132 pounds of engine brass and 167 pounds of journal brass, and in a fourth count with receiving, buying and aiding in concealing 299 pounds of brass, all of the property of and stolen from Benjamin Wham, trustee of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway Company, a…