Higgins v. State

ROBERT L. Brown, Justice.

The appellant, Kacy L. Higgins, was convicted of the crime of theft of property, a Class B felony, in that he exercised unauthorized control over timber owned by other persons and valued in excess of $2,500. The charge arose after Higgins, pursuant to a contract with Calvin Sprinkle, accepted $8,750 from Sprinkle for the removal of timber located on and adjacent to property known as “5803 West Barraque Street” in Pine Bluff. Higgins’s defense was that he was entided to sell the timber because he and his fiance, Barbara Shepherd, had entered into a contract to purchase…