DENNIS, Justice.
Defendant, Thomas Morris, was convicted by a judge of receiving stolen things, La. R.S. 14:69, and sentenced to a three year jail term. We reverse his conviction and sentence because the evidence does not warrant a finding beyond a reasonable doubt that he knew or had good reason to believe the thing, a 1975 Ford pickup truck, was stolen when he received it.
On January 3, 1980, Stanley Romero was driving across Magazine Street in New Orleans...
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