State v. Tramble

FELDMAN, Justice.

Quincy Tramble (defendant) was convicted of theft in violation of A.R.S. § 13-1802. His crime was classified as a class 6 felony rather than a class 1 misdemeanor because the theft was “from the person of another.” Id., subsection C. Defendant was alleged to have reached through the passenger window of a car which was stopped in traffic and grabbed a purse lying on the seat next to the woman driving the car. The trial judge instructed the jury that the elements of the crime of “theft from the person of another” existed if the property was taken “from [the] immediate…