Boyd v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Anniston City Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Coleman, Jr. Pink Boyd was convicted of knowingly receiving, buying, or concealing stolen property, and appeals. The defendant was indicted for knowingly receiving, buying, or concealing stolen property.
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Appeal from Anniston City Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Coleman, Jr. Pink Boyd was convicted of knowingly receiving, buying, or concealing stolen property, and appeals. The defendant was indicted for knowingly receiving, buying, or concealing stolen property. The evidence tended to show that Hamp Miller was a brakeman on the Southern Railway, and that some time in July or August he was brought to Anniston by Mr. New for the purpose of catching some thieves who had been operating upon the Southern Railway freight cars at Anniston. New and the yardmaster placed a car at a certain point in…
1Opinion of the CourtMoCLELLAN, J.
The appellant was convicted of receiving, etc., stolen property. The essential elements necessary to be found by the jury in ordr to warrant a *105conviction of this offense are that the property involved •Avas stolen, and that defendant, knoAving it to have been stolen and not having the intent to restore it to the OAvner, bought, received, and concealed, or aided another in concealing, the subject of the larceny. The burden of proof is on the state, on the issue of larceny vel non, to establish beyond a. reasonable doubt that the propei ty immlved was taken or appropriated animo furandi, which…
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