Thomas v. State

Pope, Judge.

Roosevelt Alton Thomas was convicted of motor vehicle theft. He enumerates as error on appeal the trial court’s denial of his motion for new trial based on the sufficiency of the evidence, the denial of his motion for directed verdict of acquittal and the failure to exclude an oral statement allegedly made by him at the time of his arrest.

1. The owner of the subject motor vehicle, a 4-door Chevrolet pickup truck, testified that he had parked his vehicle on the top level of a parking garage in downtown Atlanta. Upon being paged at work by the police, the owner accompanied them to…