Jennifer Crawford v. State of Alabama.

The appellant, Jennifer Crawford, was convicted of theft of property in the second degree, a violation of § 13A-8-4(a), Ala. Code 1975, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, which sentence was suspended and she was placed on three years’ supervised probation.1 This appeal followed.

The State’s evidence tended to show that Rick Frees, an investigator with Target Corporation, which owns and operates discount retail stores, began investigating losses at Target discount stores in the Birmingham area when he received information from several shoplifters that he should look at the eBay Web site…