Belcher v. State

DeCARLO, Judge.

Larceny; three years.

The Grand Jury of Barbour County, charged that Gene Belcher “ . . . feloniously took and carried away timber to-wit: saw logs a further description of same being unknown to the Grand Jury; being of the total and combined value of, to-wit; $500.00; the personal property of Guice Slawson . . . ”

Guice Slawson, manager of Midway Lumber Co., Inc., Louisville, Alabama, contracted with appellant to cut timber at the rate of $40. per thousand. Stumpage was to be paid only when tracts were obtained by appellant.

In the latter part of September or early October, 1973,…