Lawson v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This appellant has been adjudged guilty of grand larceny.

The evidence presented by the State tends to show that the appellant had been employed by the Merchants Grocery. Company of Demopolis, Alabama for some years. The company was and is a wholesale grocery company, and the appellant was employed as a driver of a truck used in delivering orders.

On the night of September 23, 1954 the truck to be driven by appellant the next morning was inspected by officials of the company, and a quantity of groceries not called for by the invoices for the truck was found therein and…