Hall v. State

The defendant, George Hall, appeals his conviction for grand theft, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence. Finding merit in Hall’s argument, we reverse.

The State sought to convict the defendant of grand theft under a principals theory after two women took cosmetic products from a CVS Pharmacy and were observed getting into a truck driven by the defendant. To convict under a principals theory, the State is required to prove that “ ‘the defendant had a conscious intent that the criminal act be done and ... the defendant did some act or said some word which was intended to and which did…