Chandler v. State

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

Appellant was found guilty of theft of property of a value in excess of $10,000 in violation of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-2203 (Repl. 1977). The theft was allegedly accomplished by a scheme by which one Jack Wilson, a weighmaster for Weyerhaeuser, issued tickets to Cleo Echols for logs delivered to Weyerhaeuser by appellant H. D. Chandler, for weights in excess of the actual weight of the logs. Echols was a logging vendor for Weyerhaeuser. Chandler was a truck driver who normally hauled logs for P. T. Henry. A truck driver delivering logs would fill out a trip ticket…