Meek v. State

The appellant was convicted of the offense of receiving or concealing stolen property and his punishment fixed at two years confinement in the penitentiary, which is the lowest prescribed by law.

The law prescribing this offense, article 1349, Penal Code, is: "If any person shall receive or conceal property which has been acquired by another in such manner as that the acquisition comes within the meaning of the term theft, knowing the same to have been so acquired, he shall be punished in the same manner as if he had stolen the property."

The State proved up and introduced, without objection by…