Gaskin v. State

CATES, Judge.

The indictment was for larceny from a storehouse. The evidence showed the defendant shoplifted a pair of men’s trousers valued at $7.95, “the personal property of Gulf Mills Inc., a corporation.” Code 1940,. T. 14, § 331, classes this as grand larceny.. *311The verdict and judgment were of guilt and sentence was for five years imprisonment.

The manager of Gulf Mills Department Store, Fairhope, identified the trousers found in defendant’s possession as the property of the store, a corporation. He had seen the defendant in the store “on the morning before he was picked up by the police.”