State v. Flowers and Jones

Appellants were charged by information in the Circuit Court of Pemiscot County, with larcency from a dwelling. ■ Upon a joint trial to • a jury they were found guilty and each of their punishments assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. From these judgments they appeal.

In March, 1923, appellants went to a pawnshop in Oaruthersville, conducted by one Friedman, and sold a suit of clothes to a clerk named Frank Pride. Later they returned to the pawnshop in the custody of an officer and redeemed or purchased the suit of clothes, and it was taken away by the officer and delivered…