State v. Basham

Berry, Chief Justice:

The appellant, Richard Basham, is before this Court on appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Fayette County entered on a verdict of the jury on December 4, 1974, finding him guilty of petit larceny.

In November, 1973, three young men broke and entered a company store of the Semet Solvay Division of Allied Chemical Corporation in Harewood, West Virginia, and removed, among other things, two chain saws and a stereo tape player having an aggregate retail value of $499.00. A day or two after the breaking and entering, the perpetrators approached the appellant in the…