The PEOPLE v. Evans

Defendant was convicted after a trial by the court without a jury of larceny of property of the value of $89 and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of from one year to nine years. He brings this writ of error to review his conviction, contending (1) that the State failed to establish adequately the value of the stolen property, (2) that a felonious intent to steal was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and (3) that the testimony of the complaining witness was conflicting and self-contradictory and should be discredited. At the time of this offense, larceny of property having a…