Craft v. State

The appellant, Julius Craft, alias Julius Croft, was indicted at the November 1954 Term of the Circuit Court of Forrest County on a charge of grand larceny in the taking, stealing, and carrying away of one yellow gold lady’s engagement ring of the value of $5 or more, and one yellow gold lady’s engagement diamond ring of the value of $25 or more, the personal property of Harold Parris doing business as Parris Jewelers. He was later tried and convicted and sentenced to serve a term of four years in the state penitentiary. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

Three witnesses testified…