Ackerman v. State

HENDRY, Judge.

Appellant, defendant in the trial court, was tried non-jury and convicted of possession of a stolen vehicle and aggravated assault. He was sentenced thereon to serve four years in the state penitentiary on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently.

Appellant attacks his conviction for possession of a stolen vehicle on the grounds that the state failed to prove every essential element of the crime: to-wit: non-consent and possession of the same automobile that was reported missing.

It is appellant’s theory that nonconsent was not proven because the state only called the owner…