Rogers v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of buying, receiving, concealing, etc., stolen property (Code 1923, § 4912) of a value that caused the punishment prescribed to be that for the offense of grand larceny (Code 1923, § 4905). His said punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for an indeterminate term of from eight' to ten years.

“Where the evidence, though proving the larceny, does not connect him with its commission, tending to fix the guilt of it upon another, and he has the recent possession of the goods, if he makes no reasonable explanation of the…