Fletcher v. State

Upon conviction by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County of felony and misdemeanor theft, appellant was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. The items taken were a car door, a gas tank and a 1961 Volkswagen automobile.

The owner of the stolen items testified that he had kept four cars behind an abandoned house on an acre of posted land owned by him. While routinely checking the property he came upon a pickup truck with one of his gas tanks in it, parked near his Volkswagen, which had been pulled a few feet by a chain still attached. The pickup truck was occupied by one Richard…