Jerome v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The defendant appeals from a conviction of theft by taking on the general grounds only. The evidence is uncontroverted that Jerome, after purchasing one article at Sears Roebuck, went to another department and picked up two tennis rackets, then to a third department where he purchased paint, and that he left the store with two purchases charged to the account of his mother, a store employee, and with the tennis rackets, which had not been charged or paid for. Thus the only question is whether he removed the rackets through inadvertence or with intent to steal. In such a…