Pitts v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant was indicted for grand larceny. His jury trial resulted in his conviction of petit larceny, hence this appeal.

Stripped of the suspicion arising from some evidence of flight of this defendant after he had been arrested for this offense, and had made bond, and some further evidence of the 'bad character of the defendant, the evidence introduced by the State merely tended to show that this defendant, Eugene Jones, and Lawrence Franklin, about three o’clock on the morning of December 22, 1945, left the Coffee Pot restaurant in Tuscaloosa and rode in an automobile to…