Durden v. State

*415OPINION

Opinion by

Justice CARTER.

In his version of the circumstances leading to his arrest, Lavern Tchefuncte Dur-den, a/k/a, Tchefuncte Durden, was taking a shortcut across a vacant lot on his way to mow the lawn at his church when he encountered a wheelbarrow filled with copper wire. Thinking that a friend of his would find a use for the wire, Durden testified that in an effort to assist a friend, he took possession of the wire-filled wheelbarrow and continued toward the church. Durden’s altruistic intentions were thwarted, however, when he encountered a Marshall police officer on his way.

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