Sosbee v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that theft by receiving, in the context of a defendant’s disposal of stolen property, “is intended to catch the person who buys or receives stolen goods, as distinct from the principal thief.”
• “it is not. . . advised to find that [recent unexplained possession of stolen property] constitutes theft by receiving”
• crimes of theft by taking and theft by receiving are mutually exclusive
• “Evidence shows either that a defendant stole goods or that he received stolen goods with scienter of the theft. He does not, under any circumstances we can think of, commit both crimes at once.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).