State v. . Charles

Pee Cubiam.

The three counts in the indictment charge the defendant with having received on 15 December, 1927, certain goods, chattels and moneys, knowing them to have been stolen. He was acquitted on the last two counts and convicted on the first. From the sentence pronounced he appealed, assigning error.

There was evidence that the stolen goods had been delivered to the defendant on different occasions, and for this reason he made a motion to quash the indictment and to require the solicitor to elect as to the count on which he would proceed. Both motions were declined. It will be noted that…