Opinion ID: 1750758
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Eugene Polite

Text: Polite, a friend of Louis Lucas Sr., testified that Lucas Sr. had asked him to keep an eye on the auto repair shop he owned in Clarksdale, while he (Lucas) was on a visit to Texas in July of 1991. The shop building had two doors, one on each end; the doors were secured by locks and chains, and Polite had keys to both locks. Polite testified that he checked on the shop regularly, including around noon on Sunday, July 28, when everything appeared to be in order. That night, around 10:00 or 10:30 p.m., Polite received a call from a friend, Charles Thomas, who told him that it appeared that a door to the shop building had been pried open. Polite went to the auto shop, where he observed that the metal front door to the shop had been pulled aloose and pried open, pried up from the bottom. [1] The next day, Polite reported to Coahoma County Deputy Williams that property was missing from the shop, including a big tool box, a couple of small tool boxes, a torque wrench, a portable air tank or compressor, and an electric grinder. [2]