Golden v. State

The defendants were accused of the offense of receiving stolen goods knowing them to be stolen. It was alleged that the principal thief committed a burglary in Charleston, South Carolina, stoic the goods rhere, and brought them to the county of Chatham in this State, where the defendants received them with guilty knowledge. The case comes to us on demurrer to the indictment.

“The doctrine seems to be established that in those States in which, by statute or at common law, it is.larceny to bring into the State goods stolen in another State or a foreign country, one who there receives goods with…