State v. Butler

RUARK, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of stealing a two-bottom tractor breaking plow from the farm of one Hoyt McDaniel. The defendant (age twenty-two) and his brother Belvey owned, or at least occupied, a sixty-acre farm near what is called the Rives neighborhood. .Late in the afternoon of a cold December day defendant got in a truck which belonged to his brother Belvey and went to Rives, where he was eventually joined by another young man named Martin. The two rode around awhile, then drove to the house of a youth, one Stinson, and picked him up. From there the trio went to the home of…