Bates v. State

DREW, E. HARRIS, Associate Judge.

Robert L. Bates appeals from an order, judgment and sentence of the Criminal Court of Record of Broward County entered consequent upon a jury verdict of guilty of grand larceny. The subject of the larceny was a pony which was entrusted to him as a bailee.

The statute under which Bates was charged and convicted is Section 811.021, F.S.A., the pertinent portion of which reads as follows:

“(1) A person who, with intent to deprive or defraud the true owner of his property or of the use and benefit thereof, or to appropriate the same to the use of the taker, or of…