People v. Bowls

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Felice Shea, J.), rendered June 11, 1990, convicting the defendant, after a jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing her, as a second felony offender, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The defendant removed the victim’s wallet from her pocketbook while the victim was sorting through a clothes bin in a store. When the defendant turned around and saw the store detective, she dropped the victim’s wallet. When the store detective asked the victim to check her purse to see if…