Heath v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction of grand larceny. Subject of the theft was a quantity of lumber, stolen from the lumber shed of Montevallo Lumber Company. A day or two later, the defendant was found in possession of the property. Explanation of his possession thereof was that he had purchased it, the night before its discovery, from an' unknown party.

On a trial for larceny, the corpus delicti having been established, the unexplained possession by the defendant of the recently stolen property is a fact from which the jury may infer his guilt. The onus of explaining this…