Coney v. State

Appellant Elizabeth Coney was charged along with codefendant Adrienne McKenzie with grand theft of jewelry from a store in Palm Beach. After their arrest, both defendants were given Miranda warnings; McKenzie made statements to the police, but Coney did not.

The two women were tried together. Coney testified that she did not realize she was still wearing the store’s gold chain around her neck when she left the establishment. The arresting officer observed Coney wearing a gold chain with a price tag at the time she was stopped, shortly after leaving the store.

In spite of the trial court’s…