State v. Shumpert

CRIST, Judge.

Appeal from a jury conviction of stealing, for which defendant, as a prior offender, was sentenced by the court to five years imprisonment. We affirm.

Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction. The testimony indicated a man pulled on victim’s purse twice, and she then gave it up without a struggle. As the man ran, victim yelled to a security guard that someone had taken her purse. The guard chased the man, who was identified as defendant, for about two blocks, losing sight of him for maybe a minute. Defendant was discovered hiding in a storage…