Sessums v. State

WALKER, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Scott County, Mississippi, wherein the appellant, E. B. Sessums, was convicted of larceny of one black angus heifer and sentenced to serve a term of four years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Although he has raised several assignments of error on appeal, we confine this opinion to one error which requires the judgment of the lower court be reversed.

On November 20, 1980, Douglas Turner reported to the Scott County sheriff the fact that one of his black angus heifers was missing from…