Burman v. State

DOWNEY, Judge.

Appellant and a co-defendant were charged in a single information with grand larceny in the theft of two television sets from a motel. Appellant was tried separately.

The evidence adduced at appellant’s trial was sufficient only to prove the theft by appellant and his cohort of one television set. Further, the evidence adduced as to the value of the set was wholly inadequate to cross the grand larceny threshold of one hundred dollars. Thus, were that the only problem presented we would remand the case to the trial court with directions to reduce the conviction to petit larceny…