Roper v. State

TYSON, Judge.

Shirley Ann Roper was indicted for theft in the second degree in violation of § 13A-8-4, Code of Alabama 1975. The jury found her “guilty as charged in the indictment” and she was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.

At approximately 2:00 on the afternoon of January 15, 1985, the security alarm at Eckerd’s Drugs on Ensley Avenue in Birmingham, Alabama went off as this appellant was leaving the store. Theodora Faye Carter, the cosmetician at Eckerd’s Drugs, stopped the appellant and told her to come back inside. The appellant then threw a bottle of cologne under…