State v. Jones

Defendant based his petition for certiorari on two grounds: First, he asserted the trial court erred in denying his motion for nonsuit; and second, he asserted the trial court erred in treating the verdict on the second count as a conviction of larceny of personal property of a value in excess of two hundred dollars, a felony, and in imposing a prison sentence of three years.

The denial of defendant’s motion for nonsuit was proper. Evidence offered by the State and by defendant, respectively, is summarized by Judge Morris in her opinion for the Court of Appeals. Suffice to say, the evidence,…