State v. McClanahan

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting the appellant, Wade McClanahan, of the crime of theft of a welding machine valued at $650.00, La.R.S. 14:67, and fixing his sentence at three years confinement in the East Baton Rouge Parish jail. Appellant reserved and perfected two bills of exceptions on which he relies to reverse his conviction.

The first bill of exceptions was reserved to the overruling by the trial court of the defendant’s motion for a new trial. The motion for a new trial alleged that there was no evidence of an essential element of the crime charged, i. e. that the State…