Taylor v. United States

REILLY, Associate Judge:

Appellant, one of two young men arrested by a special police officer at a Dart Drug Store and convicted after a jury trial of attempted petit larceny, urges this court to reverse the conviction on the ground that an improper ruling of the trial court intimidated him from taking the stand in his own defense. According to the testimony of the special officer, the only prosecution witness, he had observed appellant, his co-defendant, Darryl B. Young, along with a third youth, taking certain items of merchandise from shelves in the back of the store and placing them in a…