Holland v. State

The appellants, J. S. Holland, and his two sons, Joe, twenty-one years .of age, and Grover, nineteen, were indicted in the Fort Smith district of Sebastian county, Arkansas, for the crime of grand larceny, alleged to have been committed on February 13, 1939. Joe Holland entered a plea of guilty, but J. S. Holland and Grover Holland pleaded not guilty; were tried, found guilty by the jury, and each sentenced to one year in the state penitentiary, with a recommendation by the jury, however, of suspended sentences.

The trial court accepted the jury’s recommendation ill the case of Grover Holland…