Pounds v. State

Webb, Judge.

Michael Pounds was convicted of theft by taking and he appeals, complaining principally of the overruling of his motion for new trial on the general grounds. The subject of the taking was a vacant mobile home belonging to Ed Brooks which defendant admitted towing away from its lot in Talbot County and storing at a trailer park in Columbus which he leased. His explanation at trial was that Gwendolyn Burgman, a woman he met beside a road, had given him a check for $125 to move it and that he thought he had been authorized to do so. However, Ms. Burgman was not produced as a witness…