Bevins v. State

PRICE, Judge.

The indictment, in three counts, charged burglary and grand larceny. Defendant was convicted of the larceny of a check in the amount of $160, as charged in the third count of the indictment. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of five years.

The State’s evidence tended to show that on the night of February 22, 1955, Mr. Garnett, operator of the Allied Sales Company, in Decatur, placed checks and currency totaling approximately $1,300 in two money bags and hid them in the office. Mr. Garnett’s actions were visible through a shadeless window to anyone on the outside of…