Prather v. State

Ike J. Prather, Otto Ray Bingham, Fred Williams, alias Fred Harvey, and James Edward Mc-Cauley were jointly indicted in the Pulaski Circuit Court under § 2438 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest upon a charge of possessing burglar’s tools. That section of the statute reads as follows: ‘ ‘ Possession or manufacture of burglar’s tools. Any person who makes, mends, designs or sets up, or who has in his custody or concealed about his person, any tool, false key, lock pick, bit, nippers, fuse, force screw, punch, drill, .jimmy, bit, or any material, implement or other mechanical device whatsoever,…