Clausen

Defendant was convicted of the offense of receiving stolen property, and appeals from the .judgment and order denying him a new trial.

1. He contends that the evidence was wholly insufficient to show that he knew at the time he purchased the goods that they were stolen; that the only evidence on the point was that of Marvin, the thief, and he was an accomplice. But the fact that when defendant received the goods he made an insufficient description of them in his entry-book—a description from whicK"tEey‘ could not readily be identified from an inspection of the book—whereas the ordinance required purchasers of such goods to enter “a true and accurate description of every article purchased by them” in a hook to he kept for the inspection of the police; the fact that he told the officers who came for the goods that he had no recollection of having seen the man from whom he purchased them before, whereas he had purchased other articles from him hut a few days previous; and, lastly, that he paid but two dollars and fifty cents for the property, when, as the evidence tended to show, it was worth between fifty and sixty dollars, were all circumstances tending, independently of the…