Johnson v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Receiving and concealing stolen property is the offense; the punishment, three years in the State penitentiary.

It was the State’s position, and it so charged, that there were stolen, in Dickens County, on December 18th, 1940, at the same time, and as one transaction, three head of cattle, two of these belonging to E. S. Lee and the other to Burnett Haney; that appellant, knowing the cattle to have been so acquired, received and concealed them, from B. K. Collins, in Childress County, to which county they had been carried by the thief.

In view of the disposition we make of this…