93 Neb. 66 | Neb. | 1913
In a prosecution by the state, William G. Korab, defendant, was convicted of receiving stolen property valued by the jury at $38, and for that offense was sentenced to serve in the penitentiary a term of not less than one nor more than seven years. As plaintiff in error he now seeks a reversal of his conviction.
The information ivas made by the county attorney of Boyd county, Nebraska, and charged: “William G. Korab, late of the county aforesaid, on the 14th day of March, A. D. 1912, in the county of Boyd and the state of Nebraska, aforesaid, unlawfully and feloniously did receive the personal property of John Lightfoot of the value of $48, then lately before stolen, taken and carried away, with the intent, of him, the said William G. Korab, to defraud said John Lightfoot, he then and there well knowing the said personal property to have been stolen.”
Defendant did not bring r-> a bill of exceptions. The only assignment of error available to him here is the overruling. of a motion in arrest of judgment. “That the facts
An information for larceny may contain also a count for receiving the stolen property. Criminal code, sec. 419. Since both offenses may be charged in the same information, the rules for determining the sufficiency of the description in charging larceny apply substantially in a prosecution for the single offense of receiving stolen property. In this state the law has been stated thus: “In an indictment or information for larceny the property alleged to have been stolen should be described with sufficient particularity to enable the court to determine that such property is the subject of larceny; to advise the accused with reasonable certainty of the property meant, and enable him to make the needful preparations to meet such charge at the trial.” Barnes v. State, 40 Neb. 545. This is the general rule. An eminent text-writer says: “As in larceny, so in receiving, the transaction is identified by the description of the stolen things, and their ownership; namely, the thing stolen must be described in the same manner as in larceny.” 2 Bishop, New Criminal Procedure (4th ed.) sec. 982.
In the present case the description, “personal property of John .Lightfoot of the value of $48,” did not enable the
Reversed.