Bullock v. United States

FICKLING, Associate Judge:

After a trial before a jury, appellant was convicted of petit larceny 1 and sentenced to one year in jail. He now brings this appeal.

The Government’s only witness, a special police officer employed at Lansburgh’s Department Store, testified that while on duty he saw appellant carrying a shopping bag apparently containing a box, identified by the officer as a “booster box,” a box with out a bottom through which stolen merchandise may be passed into the bag. The officer stated that he later saw appellant in the lingerie department and observed him look around as if to…