State v. Campbell

OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Justice.

Thomas H. Campbell was accused of having violated AS 11.20.260 which provides that one who finds lost property and appropriates it to his own use without either advertising his discovery in a paper of general circulation or notifying the police officer nearest to the place of the finding is guilty of larceny. An indictment was returned on June 11, 1974 charging the defendant with “wilfully, unlawfully and fe-loniously” finding and retaining certain specified items of personal property — silver painted aluminum cans containing .22 caliber target ammunition, an ASAHI…