O'Brien v. State

BOYER, Chief Judge.

Appellant, defendant below, was charged by information with grand larceny. After a jury found him guilty as charged, the trial court imposed sentence. Appellant now argues that his conviction should be overturned, and that the trial court erred in failing to grant his motion for directed verdict of acquittal based on sufficiency of the evidence.

At trial, the state proved that in February of 1974, appellant was a CPA and Financial Vice-President of Atlantic Discount Corporation in Jacksonville. While appellant, as one of the corporation’s loan officers, did have authority to…