Edwards v. State

Plaintiffs in error were indicted and convicted with Lynn Thomas and Virgil Hughes for the larceny of a black mule in Haywood County, the punishment of each being fixed at two years in the penitentiary. Hughes was granted a new trial. Thomas did not appeal.

The mule in question was stolen from the pasture of Mrs. Laverne Binder, in Brownsville, on the night of October 9, 1937. We think the preponderance of the testimony shows that the mule was stolen by Edwards and Thomas and trucked by them to Dyersburg with other stolen stock, all of which was turned over to Hardin about 11 o’clock that…