State v. Hutchings

SANDERS, Justice.

Steve Hutchings, William Clayton, Ozana Solomon, Herbert Taylor, Henry Lee Thompson, James Causey and Climon Smith appeal from their theft convictions and sentences of three years at Louisiana State Penitentiary.

During 1964, the officials of L. Frank & Company, Inc., a wholesale produce establishment in New Orleans, became alarmed over continued shortages. A company official retained a private detective agency to conduct an investigation. The investigation disclosed that certain loaders, shipping clerks, warehousemen, and truck drivers had been systematically misappropriating…