Legal Opinion
State v. Trafton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 26, 1981PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARTER, Justice.
After a trial in Superior Court, Somerset County, the jury adjudged the defendant, Clinton Trafton, guilty of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 353 (1980 Supp.). The defendant brings this appeal from the judgment entered on the verdict.
We sustain the appeal.
On May 8, 1979, Stanley McGray, owner of a gas station in Skowhegan, had in a cracker box six bank bags containing between $8,000 and $10,000. That evening McGray left Chuck Robins, Jr., alone with the box of money in McGray’s van. The next morning, May 9, McGray took the box to his gas station. The…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- United States v. Tyrone Smith, United States of America v. Anthony E. GartrellCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1976
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1978
- State v. HurdSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1976
- State v. MottramSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1962
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3Cited by27 opinions
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- State v. HarnishSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1989
- State v. LavoieSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2010
- C.N. Brown Co. v. GillenSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1990
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