Trussell v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The appellant was convicted of the offense of grand larceny. His punishment was fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

The state’s evidence showed that a money changer containing $227.00, the property of The Coca-Cola Bottling Company, was stolen from the snack bar of the Citizen’s Hospital in Talladega, Alabama, during the early morning hours of September 19, 1966. One witness estimated the time of the taking at between 3:00 and 4:00 A.M.

Robert Donnie Key testified he had an automobile of the description given by state’s witnesses who saw the car at the hospital; that…