State v. Fowler

Hatcher, President:

The defendant was indicted, convicted and sentenced upon a charge of knowingly receiving stolen parts of an automobile.

The state proved the theft of the car, the defendant’s possession of the parts from the car, the finding of the body of the car in a field several hundred feet from the public road, and his proximity thereto on one occasion. The field was a number of miles from his home. He explained, without contradiction, that when seen near the car, he and several companions were enroute to a bootlegger and were attracted to the car from the road. He proved that the car…