Shelby v. State

OPINION

BRADFORD, Judge.

Following a jury trial, Appellant-Defendant, Steven Shelby, appeals his conviction and sentence for Auto Theft as a Class D felony and the trial court’s finding him to be a Habitual Offender. 1 Upon appeal, Shelby challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction and further claims that the trial court erred by rejecting certain proposed jury instructions. We reverse and remand.

FACTS

On October 23, 2006, Euneka Reaves discovered that her grandmother’s gray 1988 Buick LeSabre, which Reaves had permission to drive, was no longer in front of Reaves’s…