Corn v. State

Brady, Tom P., J.

The appellants were indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Hancock County, Mississippi, for the possession of burglary tools and were each sentenced to serve four years in the state penitentiary. From this conviction and sentence, this appeal is prosecuted.

The record discloses that Latham Garriga, a municipal policeman and the deputy sheriff of Hancock County, Mississippi, was employed also as an employee of Porter’s Garage, which is located near Bay St. Louis, in Hancock County. On January 5, 1963, when Garriga *159was working at Porter’s Garage and when he was…