State v. Harrison

ELMORE, Judge.

Lavorace Romoodee Harrison (defendant) was convicted by a jury of larceny of a dog and now appeals. We hold that defendant received a trial free from prejudicial error and plain error.

I. Background

On 27 January 2009, Judy Marshburn’s one-year-old pit bull was stolen from her yard in Spring Hope. The dog was white with a brown patch over his eye, and Marshburn kept him in a dog pen in the back yard, with a brick in front of the gate to keep the dog from escaping. Marshburn never saw the dog again.

An investigator from the Nash County Sheriff’s Department, Deputy Bryant,…