State v. O'KELLY

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves questions which arose in a prosecution for receiving stolen goods under § 712.1, Code 1973.

On the night of September 1, 1969, someone stole a large safe from the office of Delight Wholesale Company in Omaha, Nebraska. Money bags in the safe contained $2,614.83. Later that night an Omaha police officer spied a pickup truck hauling a safe. The occupants of the truck fled, but the officer seized the truck and safe and placed them in the Omaha police garage. Still later that night, someone stole the pickup and safe from the police garage.

That same night a…