Childs v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for the theft of an automobile. Punishment is three years in the penitentiary.

The evidence shows that appellant with eight other parties were confined in the jail of Lamar County. They effected an escape. Appellant with four others then took an automobile from the street and drove it into the. State of Arkansas where they attempted to sell it. Learning that suspicion had been aroused in the mind of the party with whom they were negotiating they drove the car some distance farther and abandoned it. A few days later appellant and others who escaped with him were…