State v. White

The defendant was convicted after a jury trial of larceny in the third degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-124. She has appealed from the judgment rendered on the verdict. The defendant claims that the trial court erred in its ruling on the admissibility of evidence concerning value, in its charge to the jury on a lesser included offense and in its failure to conduct a suppression hearing in the absence of the jury.

The jury could readily have found the following factual situation: On June 25, 1979, the defendant and her daughter, Tammy, age 15 years, were in the Sage-Alien store in…