Seaton v. State

The appellant, Charles Seaton, was convicted of theft of property in the first degree, in violation § 13A-8-3, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment, and that sentence was suspended and he was placed on two years' supervised probation.

The state's evidence tended to show that in January 1993 the victim, George Balmer, reported to the Montgomery County Sheriffs Department that three of his horses were missing.1 The case was assigned to Willie Holdren, an investigator for the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department. During his investigation of the case, Holdren received…