Kornegay v. State

CARR, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the court below for grand larceny.

It is not disputed in the evidence that the accused, assisted by other indictees (not now on trial), in the nighttime, took and carried away about fifty squares of asbestos siding from a building on a construction job. The material was hauled to the home of a Mr. Emil Smelley.

The evidence for the State tended to show that the defendant importuned Mr. Smelley to purchase the property, for which he paid a little less than the current price, and the same was delivered to his home as agreed. If the testimony of Mr. Smelley…