Woodell v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for receiving a stolen automobile with the punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

The count in the indictment under which appellant was convicted alleged that the automobile was the property of N. Y. Anderson and had been stolen by one Bruce and that appellant fraudulently received it from Bruce knowing it to have been stolen. The charge authorized the conviction of appellant if he received the automobile knowing it had been acquired by theft. The charge does not require the jury to find that appellant “fraudulently received it, nor that it belonged to…