State v. Gribbin

PER CURIAM *

The Justice in the Superior Court before whom this charge of willful concealment of merchandise (17 M.R.S.A. § 3501) was heard, jury waived, was confronted with testimony which was almost completely contradictory in its essential respects.

A Deputy Sheriff who was employed as security manager at the Jordan Marsh department store in South Portland testified that he observed the defendant take a pewter goblet from a display, walk behind a column with it, remove the price tag and throw it on the floor, place the goblet in a bag and then start to go down the escalator. The officer…