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231 So. 2d 774

Mansfield v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided February 9, 1970

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1970-02-09

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently November 1975

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Relies on 227 So. 2d 278 - Madere v. State

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Decided 1970-02-09

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ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

¶1William Albert Mansfield, appellant, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County of the offense of receiving stolen goods.

¶2This case is controlled by the companion case of Madere v. State, 227 So.2d 278 (Miss.1969), in which the Court held under similar facts that it was reversible error for the State to obtain an instruction that if the evidence shows the goods were found in defendant’s possession, and he showed no satisfactory explanation of such possession, “there arises a presumption or inference of fact that .the defendant received said goods knowing same to have been lately taken, stolen and carried away.”

¶3Reversed and remanded.

RODGERS, JONES, BRADY and SMITH, JJ., concur.
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