Crosby v. Lucas

This appeal is an aftermath of Crosby v. State, 169 Ark. 1058, where the same Crosby was indicted, convicted and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary on a charge of grand larceny for stealing 65 suits of clothes, the property of appellee. While we there held the evidence sufficient to sustain the conviction, the case was reversed for error in an instruction given over appellant’s objection.

In this case appellee sued appellant for the value of the clothes stolen after crediting him with the market value of 35 suits recovered from him in their then condition, a total of $1,502.53. There…