Calhoun v. State

Upon an indictment charging him with the larceny of one diamond bar pin of the value of $85, the property of Mrs. E. O. Catledge, the appellant was convicted and sentenced to serve a term of two years in the state penitentiary, and he prosecutes this appeal.

Mrs. Catledge, who lived at Tutwiler, Mississippi, was asked, as a witness for the state upon the trial, to “tell the jury whether or not at any time during this year (1940) you lost a diamond bar pin?” Her reply was: “Well, I didn’t exactly lose it. It was either taken or misplaced. I wore the pin the 4th or 5th of April the last time. I…