State v. Haines

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Common Pleas Court of Montgomery County rendered on a jury verdict of guilty to a charge of pocket picking. (Section 2907.29, Revised Code.)

It appears from the evidence that Marguerite Miller and Ethel Newman were facing a counter at McCrory’s Store in downtown Dayton on May 21, 1959, when a third woman came behind and between them; that Mrs. Newman saw the woman take a billfold from the pocket of Mrs. Miller, at which time she said, “Marguerite, she is taking your billfold”; and that the third woman, who was identified as the…