Keith v. State

RODGERS, Justice:

This is an appeal by Gerald Olin Keith from a conviction in the Circuit Court of Lafayette County, Mississippi, on a charge of possessing burglary tools. The defendant was sentenced to serve a term of five years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. The defendant’s conviction grew out of the following facts.

On August 27, 1966, a highway patrolman learned that one Buddy Malone Mc-Collum was wanted in Fayette County, Tennessee, on a felony charge, and a warrant had been issued for his arrest. The patrolman saw an automobile near Wyatt Crossing in Lafayette County, Mississippi.…