People v. Niles

Plaintiff in error, Odd Niles, was indicted jointly with Sylvester Jackson and Frank Haskell in the city court of Mattoon, Illinois, at the March term, 1919. The first two counts of the indictment charged them with the larceny on September 24, 1918, of a Ford automobile of the value of $300, the property of William Paxton. The third count' of the indictment charged them with receiving the automobile for their own gain, to prevent the owner from again possessing his property; knowing it to have been stolen. Haskell and Jackson entered their pleas of guilty at the same term the indictment was…