Slaughter v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was indicted (along with her co-defendant), but separately tried and convicted of the offense of theft by taking (28 rings, the property of a jewelry store) and thereafter sentenced to serve eight years (the first five years in confinement and the balance, three years, probated). Her motion for new trial, as later amended, was filed, heard and denied. Defendant appeals. Held:

1. The co-defendant who testified for the state as an accomplice, stated that he, another named male and the defendant entered the jewelry store with larceny on their minds “to do a…