Clark v. State

BRETT, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff in error, James E. Clark, defendant below, was charged by information in the District Court of Choctaw County with the crime of larceny of lost property, a certain billfold containing $397.65 belonging to Mrs. Willie Harmon. He was tried to a jury, convicted, and his punishment fixed at one year in the state penitentiary. Judgment and sentence were entered accordingly, from which this appeal has been perfected.

Briefly, the facts are Mrs. Willie Harmon left home on December 3, 1956, to go to the post office in Hugo, Oklahoma, for the purpose of purchasing a…