Shedd v. State

Paul Shedd was convicted in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County of grand lar ceny, and sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary. On this appeal he complains of the theory of the State as set forth in its only instruction to the jury on the merits.

There was ample evidence to warrant the jury in finding appellant guilty, upon the following facts substantiated by the testimony. On the afternoon of March 25, 1955, O. L. Jenkins, 54 years old and a resident of Ellisville, went to a place in Jones County known as the Pine Grove Cafe. He had recently received…