State v. Gentile

CRIST, Judge.

Jury conviction of stealing from a dwelling. Punishment assessed at ten years under the Second Offender Act. We affirm.

The seventy-three year old victim was cutting her grass when she heard her dog bark. Upon entering her house, she found the defendant with her purse in his hands. He ran out the back door, with the money from her purse, was arrested by the police, and identified by the victim and a neighbor.

Defendant’s sole contention of error relates to questions of the prosecutor implying that defendant’s prior convictions were perpetrated against elderly people, as was the…