State v. Smith

MilleR, Judge:

Defendant was tried in the criminal court of Raleigh 'County, on an indictment charging that he “did feloniously receive and have two Winchester 16-gauge repeating shot guns of the total value of $100.00 of the goods and chattels ■of the East Gulf Coal Company, a corporation, which said goods and chattels were lately before feloniously taken, stolen .■and carried away from the East Gulf Coal Company, a corporation, he the said William Smith, then and there well knowing the said goods and chattels to have been feloniously taken, stolen and carried away,” etc.

On the trial…