S.P.S. v. State

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The juvenile respondent stole seven phone cards with a face value of $99.99 each from a Wal-Mart store. The cards could be used for telephone service only upon their validation when paid for at the check-out counter. S.P.S., however, was apprehended in the parking lot after he had left the store without bothering to stop at the cashier. On these facts, the trial judge found S.P.S. delinquent as guilty of grand theft,1 that is, the taking of property worth more than $300.00, obviously based on a valuation of $99.99 per card. We agree with the appellant that this…