State v. Emory

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction by a jury of armed criminal action and assault in the first degree and the resultant concurrent ten year sentences. We affirm.

The victim, Donald May, had resided in a house owned and occupied by John McBroom and his wife. McBroom was arrested and placed in jail. His wife left the house to live with her family. May then moved out, and believing that the McBrooms owed him a refund of money he had paid for room and board, took two pieces of furniture. These he sold to a friend, Baker, without telling him how the furniture was acquired.…