State v. Jones

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

In this case, defendant was overpaid because a payroll processor accidentally typed “$120,000” instead of “$1,200” into a payment processing system, resulting in a total payment (after deductions) of $118,729.49. Although defendant was informed of the error and was asked not to remove the excess funds from his bank account, he made a series of withdrawals and transfers totaling $116,861.80. We must decide *632whether the State produced sufficient evidence to support defendant’s convictions for three counts of felonious larceny.

When the overpayment occurred, defendant…