The buying, receiving or concealing of stolen property with the intent to prevent the owner from recovering it, knowing it to have been stolen by another, constitutes the offense of receiving stolen property.

64 Gindrat vs. People, 138 Ill., 112. 65 State vs. Jackson, 30 Me., 29;

Williams vs. People, 101 Ill., 384.

66 Coffett vs. State, 27 Tex. App., 608. 67 State vs. Collins, 72 N. C, 141;

Kewting vs. People, 160 111., 481.

The receiving of stolen goods knowing them to be stolen is an affront to public justice and is criminal.68

By statute this offense is made a distinct and substantive crime in itself, the person committing it having no criminal connection with the stealing of the goods received by him.69

But under statutes in some states a receiver of stolen goods is made an accessory after the fact.70

In some states this offense is made a felony or misdemeanor depending upon the value of the property. To make out this offense it is essential that the goods in question were stolen,71 and that at the moment the accused received them he knew they had been stolen.72 If the accused believed and had good reason to believe that the goods he received had been stolen, that is sufficient without actual knowledge.73