Lasley v. State

The defendant was indicted and convicted for receiving stolen property in the second degree. Alabama Code 1975, Section13A-8-18 (Amended 1977). Sentence was twenty years' imprisonment under the Habitual Felony Offender Act. Code, Section 13A-5-9. One issue is presented on appeal.

The defendant maintains that the State failed to prove that the market value of the stolen property, Code Section 13A-8-1 (14), was between $100.00 and $1,000.00 at the time the property was stolen.

The evidence shows that on the 8th of January, 1981, Ethel Mae Taylor's home was burglarized and among the property taken…