Tinney v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Judge:

Timothy Joel Tinney, the appellant herein, was convicted of Grand Larceny, After Former Conviction of Two or More Felonies, in violation of 21 O.S. 1981, §§ 51, 1701, in Case No. CRF-83-7, in the District Court of Pottawatomie County. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and set punishment at thirty-one and one-half years’ imprisonment. Judgment and sentence was imposed in accordance with the jury’s verdict.

Approximately 8:30 p.m., January 8, 1983, an emergency exit door was opened sounding an alarm in the warehouse of Cook’s Department Store in Shawnee, Oklahoma. As the…