Tanner v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

Robert Lewis Tanner was convicted of felony theft by shoplifting and sentenced as a recidivist. On appeal, he enumerates four errors.

This case arose while Tanner and his common law wife (and codefendant) were shopping at a Kroger store. Price v. State, 222 Ga. App. 655, 657 (2) (475 SE2d 692) (1996) (evidence on appeal must be viewed in a light most favorable to the verdict). A store security guard spotted Tanner in the cosmetics aisle placing containers of Oil of Olay into a grocery cart. His wife, standing at the other end of the cart, then placed the containers into…