Case Name: GUNTER v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1920-03-10
Citations: 219 S.W. 452
Docket Number: No. 5697
Parties: GUNTER v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 219
Pages: 452–452

Head Matter:
GUNTER v. STATE.
(No. 5697.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 10, 1920.)
1. Receiving stolen goods <S^8(4) — Evidence HELD SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN CONVICTION.
Evidence of the circumstances under which accused received automobile tire casings which had been stolen, with his statements and admissions tending to show guilty knowledge, held sufficient to sustain a conviction for knowingly receiving and concealing stolen goods.
2. Criminal law <S=»1159(5) — Jury findings ON FACT ISSUES MUST BE APPROVED IN ABSENCE OF ERROR.
Finding of the jury on questions of fact as to whether defendant, accused of receiving stolen automobile casings, got them to put on the car of his cousin, or whether he shared in the money received from the cousin with which the casings were paid for, must be approved unless there is error in the record.
Appeal from District' Court, McLennan County; Richard I. Munroe, Judge.
Johnnie Gunter was convicted of receiving and concealing stolen property of the value of more than $50, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
R. D. Evans, of Waco, for appellant.
Alvin M. Owsley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of McLennan county of receiving and concealing' stolen property of the value of more than $50, and his' punishment fixed at two years' confinement in the penitentiary.
The record is before us without a sihgle bill of exceptions, and the only matter here urged is that the evidence is not sufficient to justify the verdict. We cannot agree with this contention. The uneontradieted testimony shows that several automobile casings, each of the value of more than $50, were unlawfully taken from the possession of the owner about the time charged in the indictment, and that soon thereafter two negro boys came to the place where appellant was at work, and, according to his own admission and statement, wanted to sell him some automobile casings, and that he took them in a car, and went with them to a place on the river bank above the city of Waco, at which place they produced two new automobile casings, still in their original paper wrapping. He admitted that he then took the boys and these casings to the home of his cousin, and that she handed him the amount of money which he said the boys wanted for the casings. Later these two casings were recovered by the owner, as were also the others which were hidden under a pile of trash on the river bank. Appellant made a confession to the officers, which was introduced in evidence, which confession contains numerous statements and admissions tending to show his guilty knowledge. The court submitted the case to the jury under a fair and full charge on circumstantial evidence, to which no exception was taken; and under this charge the jury has found appellant guilty, and has given him the lowest penalty known to our law for this felony. We think, from the record, that the guilt of appellant is fully established. That he got the casings to put on the car of his cousin, which he seemed at liberty to use, or that he shared in the money which he said he paid to the boys after receiving the same from his cousin, would he questions of fact for the jury, and their finding must be approved unless there be error found in the record.
Finding no error in the record, the judgment will be affirmed.
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