Whitmer v. State

Appellant was convicted by a jury, on May 3, 1.966, of the offense of larceny of goods in excess of the value of $100, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Judge James J. Pugh, presiding. He was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of ten years.

This appeal from that judgment and sentence raises two contentions :

1) The evidence was not sufficient as a matter of law to convict the appellant of larceny.

2) In the absence of supporting evidence that a confession was actually made, the court should not have denied the motion for judgment of acquittal.

I

On October 15, 1965, Mrs. Judith E. H.…