Jones v. State

The appellant, Bichard Jones, was jointly indicted with Isom Summit on a charge of knowingly receiving stolen property. Severance was granted and appellant was tried, convicted and sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary, from which judgment he appeals.

E. L. Burnside, Charlie King, and Willie Kennedy testified on the part of the state that they stole six sacks of fertilizer, the property of B. N. Bond, who lived about four or five miles east of Cleveland. All of them had been previously convicted of stealing fertilizer, Burnside being sentenced to the penitentiary and King and…