People v. Berger

This defendant was charged in the second count of the indictment with criminally receiving stolen property under the following circumstances: On March 26, 1940, one Schultz, an employee of a truckman, was carrying a truckload of mixed freight including a shipment of rubber thread. This rubber thread was packed in a wooden case, five feet high, two and a half feet wide, two and a half feet deep, weighing about 145 pounds gross. The truck had an inclosed body with doors and a tailboard in the rear. Schultz testified that except when deliveries were being made he kept the back of the truck shut…