State v. Woolens

PLOTKIN, Judge.

Michael Woolens was charged with the theft of six clocks valued between $100 and $500. A jury convicted him as charged. He was sentenced to two years at hard labor.

On May 20, 1988, a security guard at McCrory’s Department Store on Canal Street in New Orleans observed the defendant taking clocks off a shelf and putting them into two shopping bags. The guard followed Woolens out of the store where he stopped Woolens and asked him if he had a receipt for the clocks. When Woolens said he did not, the guard had Woolens accompany him back into the store and summoned police. The guard…