State v. Lawson

The appellant was convicted of robbery, grand larceny, and aggravated assault and battery. He received three ten-year consecutive sentences, suspended upon service of ten years, with three years’ probation. Our review of the case persuades us the appellant should not have been convicted of larceny. Therefore we reverse that conviction, vacate the attendant sentence, and affirm the remainder of the judgment.

The evidence at trial showed that the assistant manager of a restaurant had left the premises one night carrying the evening’s receipts in a paper bag. The appellant attacked him from…