State v. Corvelo

BERNSTEIN, Chief Justice.

On March 24, 1960, the defendant was charged, by information, with the crime of “receiving stolen property, a felony.” To this charge the defendant entered a plea of not guilty. Five months thereafter the State amended the information, omitting the designation of the crime as a felony and charging that the defendant

“ * * * did receive, buy or take possession of personal property belonging to one Lavonne Gillespie, which he, the said Egidio Rezendez Corvelo, then and there knew was stolen property and that knowing the same to have been stolen, he did wilfully and…