People v. Gasparik

OPINION OF THE COURT

The judgment of conviction rendered on December 20, 1978 (Goldberg, J., at trial and sentence) is affirmed.

The defendant had tried on a leather jacket on the second *488floor of Alexander’s Department Store. Two store detectives, each stationed very close to the defendant, testified that they saw him rip off the price tag and a sensormatic device (an electronic device on garments, ordinarily removed by the cashier when payment is made and which sets off an alarm if not removed before the garment leaves the store) from the jacket. Defendant had then wandered about in the store,…