Stewart v. State

Appellant was convicted of grand larceny. The property was described in the indictment as "one John Deere tractor, of the value of $15,000 the personal property of John Schaff." He was sentenced to imprisonment for six years.

The corpus delicti was unquestionably established by the testimony of John M. Schaff, the owner of the tractor, who said that it was stolen at Foley, in Baldwin County, on November 1, 1977.

The recovery of the stolen tractor was unquestionably established by the testimony of Baldwin County Deputy Sheriff Joe Rizzo, who testified that on February 23, 1978, he recovered the…