Thomas v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was tried by the court, without the intervention of a jury, for theft by taking under OCGA § 16-8-2.

The evidence adduced at trial shows the following: In January 1984 Chester Morrison, the manager of Air Components and Equipment Company, Inc. (Air Components), received several telephone calls from a person identifying himself as Alan Bass of Albany, Georgia. Bass told Morrison that he was associated with Bass Contracting and that he was interested in renting sandblasting and painting equipment for use on a job Bass Contracting was to perform for…