Andrews v. People

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court:

Plaintiff in error was indicted in tbe recorder’s court' of tbe city of Chicago for having received stolen goods, consisting of overcoats, dress and business coats, and shirts, the property of Morse, Loomis & ’Co. On a plea of not-guilty, he was, on the second trial, convicted, the first jury to whom the case was submitted having been unable to agree, and the term of his confinement in the penitentiary was fixed at two years.

The goods were stolen by a clerk of Morse, Loomis & Co., and sold to accused. Clark, their salesman, swears that he stole the goods and…