State v. Goff

PRITCHARD, Judge.

By the verdict of a jury appellant was convicted of a charge of the misdemeanor offense of stealing under $50.00. The jury fixed the punishment at 60 days imprisonment in the Jackson County jail upon which the court entered sentence. The sole point here presented is that the court erred in overruling appellant’s motion for new trial because there was insufficient evidence of stealing “in that there was no evidence that anything of value had been taken from victim’s vending machine.” In the prayer of his brief appellant asks for reversal and discharge.

The state says that…