Mendenhall v. Skaggs Companies, Inc.

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

Edwin L. Mendenhall, the appellant, was arrested for shoplifting at one of the appellee’s Little Rock stores. Wilbur Page, an off-duty policeman employed by the appellee as a detective, testified that he observed Mendenhall place two bottles of men’s cologne in a paper bag and leave the store. Page followed Mendenhall from the store, stopped him, identified himself as a police officer, took Mendenhall to the store office, and arrested him. A store supervisor corroborated Page’s testimony. Mendenhall denied he had stolen the items but maintained that he brought the…