Hitt v. State

This case involves a conviction of receiving stolen property. The indictment charged that on January 28, 1952, appellant bought and received from three named persons certain stolen property, knowing it to be stolen, which property was described as three sacks of cotton seed, the property of L. 0. McFerrin, two spools of barbed wire, the property of T. M. Magers, and thirteen sacks of cotton dust or poison, the property of Kit Bryant. The evidence for the state tended to show that on the stated date, after dark, the three men named in the indictment stole three sacks of cotton seed from L. C.…