People v. Spann

Defendants Donald Spann, Leonard Adams, and others were tried by jury in recorder’s court for the city of Detroit on charges of conspiracy, CLS 1961, § 750.505 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.773), and larceny over $100, CLS 1961, § 750.356 (Stat Ann 1965 Cum Supp § 28.588). Spann and Adams were convicted, sentenced, and now appeal.

In late November, 1963, Theodore Kaplan, controller of Sak’s Fifth Avenue, Detroit store, received a telephone call from Ted Lole, general manager of Lafayette Waste Paper Company, the company that picked up Sak’s baled waste paper. At a meeting held later on the same day,…