Jackson v. State

OPINION

RUSSELL, Judge.

William Henry Jackson, indigent and represented by the Public Defender, appeals his grand larceny conviction and three (3) year penitentiary sentence. A pick-up truck belonging to Stovall Engineering Company of Memphis was stolen from their place of business at some unknown time after late afternoon on Saturday, August 1, 1970; and on the following morning at about 3:00 a. m. Jackson was arrested while driving the truck alone in Camden, Tennessee, some 147 miles away. The State proved that Jackson had been given a ride in the truck on that Saturday afternoon in Memphis,…