Tbe defendants, other than Garvin, admitted that the ear in question was found by the officers in their possession, but they denied having received it, knowing at the time that it had been felo-niously stolen or taken. C. S., 4250. They offered evidence tending to show that a man by the name of Brooks or Yow came along driving the Chevrolet roadster, picked up the defendants, carried them in the direction of Sanford and on towards Fayetteville, and somewhere near the latter place, the said driver left the automobile, and went off; whereupon the defendants drove the car to the home of the defendant, Garvin, where it was found.
The State contended that Brooks or Yow was but an imaginary person or a mere man of straw, and that the defendants alone were responsible for the larceny of the automobile.
Yiewed in the light of the evidence and the charge of the court, the verdict would seem to be defective or insufficient to support a judgment, as it is not responsive to the indictment. S. v. Shew, 194 N. C., 690, 140 S. E., 621; S. v. Whitaker, 89 N. C., 472. See, also, S. v. Gregory, 153 N. C., 646, 69 S. E., 674, and S. v. Parker, 152 N. C., 790, 67 S. E., 35. It is not found that the defendants received the car in question knowing at the time that the same had been feloniously stolen or taken. S. v. Dail, 191 N. C., 231, 131 S. E., 573; S. v. Caveness, 78 N. C., 484. Nor was the jury instructed that such a finding would be necessary before the defendants could be convicted on the second count. S. v. Caveness, supra.
On the record as it now appears, the appealing defendant is entitled to a venire de novo; and it is so ordered.
Venire de novo.