Kidd v. People

Thomas Edgar Kidd was convicted of receiving stolen goods of the value of $161, knowing them to have been stolen, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. He claims that the court erred in several of its rulings during the trial, and that because of those errors the judgment should be reversed.

The people’s evidence tended to show that on the night of December 25, 1934, Kay Hardesty and Gfeorge Wahl burglarized a drug store in Denver; that they took a large quantity of liquor and cigarettes and sold them to the defendant, who kept a pool hall at Evergreen; and that when he…